Aon turns to Latham antitrust team for $30 bln DOJ merger battle
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(Reuters) - Insurance broker Aon plc is tapping a team of antitrust partners at Latham & Watkins to defend its planned $30 billion acquisition of Willis Towers Watson against a Justice Department lawsuit. Six Latham partners - E. Marcellus Williamson, Daniel Wall, Ian Conner, Lawrence Buterman, Michael Egge and Marguerite Sullivan - filed notices of appearance in the case on Friday in Washington, D.C., federal court. In the lawsuit it filed on Wednesday, the Justice Department alleged the acquisition, announced in March 2020, would reduce competition and could lead to higher prices. Wall, who began his legal career in the Justice Department’s antitrust division in the 1980s, is among the attorneys defending Apple against accusations that it forced consumers to overpay for iPhone software applications. Conners division launched the agencys lawsuit against Facebook accusing the social media platform of using a "buy or bury" strategy to snap up rivals and keep smaller competitors at bay.
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