{"id":19393,"date":"2020-08-28T08:45:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T12:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/aon-willis-towers-watson-merger-receives-shareholder-approval-149367"},"modified":"2020-08-28T08:45:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T12:45:11","slug":"shareholders-approve-aon-willis-towers-watson-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/08\/28\/shareholders-approve-aon-willis-towers-watson-merger\/","title":{"rendered":"Shareholders approve Aon, Willis Towers Watson merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"316\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/merger-sign-acquisition.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"Shareholders approve Aon, Willis Towers Watson merger\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff <\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;August 28, 2020 <\/p>\n<p>Aon and Willis Towers Watson\u2019s proposed merger&nbsp;has received approval by their respective shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>The merger, announced in March, remains subject to customary regulatory and other closing conditions. It\u2019s expected to close in the first half of 2021. Upon closing, Willis Towers Watson shareholders will receive 1.08 Aon shares in exchange for each Willis Towers Watson share they held immediately prior to the closing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/aon-and-willis-towers-watson-set-to-merge-143434\">Aon and Willis Towers Watson set to merge<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of Aon\u2019s board of directors and executive team, I would like to thank our shareholders for their overwhelming support of the proposed combination with Willis Towers Watson,\u201d said Greg Case, chief executive officer of Aon, in a press release. \u201cOur combination, which will accelerate innovation and strengthen our capability to provide more relevant solutions for clients, has only become more important through the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe events of 2020 are illustrative of the exact type of transformative long-tail risk our new organization will be best positioned to address, creating significant value for clients, colleagues and shareholders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/aon-willis-towers-watson-merger-receives-shareholder-approval-149367\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff &nbsp;|&nbsp;August 28, 2020 Aon and Willis Towers Watson\u2019s proposed merger&nbsp;has received approval by their respective shareholders. The merger, announced in March, remains subject to customary regulatory and other closing conditions. It\u2019s expected to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}