CHICAGO, July 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aon Corporation today announced the appointment of Peter Lieb as executive vice president and general counsel. Lieb, currently senior vice president, general counsel and secretary at NCR Corporation, will join Aon in mid-July.

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"I am extremely pleased that Peter has agreed to join Aon. His insight and counsel will be valuable to our entire senior team," said Greg Case, Aon president and chief executive officer. "He brings a tremendous depth of legal experience from both public and private sector roles that will serve Aon well as we continue to build the leading global professional services firm focused on risk and human capital management."

Commenting on his new position, Lieb noted, "I'm excited to join Aon. This is an opportunity for me to be part of a great firm and to work with an extremely talented and motivated group of business leaders. I look forward to the challenge of leading a global legal team and helping Aon achieve its business objectives."

Lieb, age 53, joined NCR in 2006, where he managed an international law department and provided counsel to the board of directors and senior executives on all legal matters affecting the $5 billion global technology company, including board governance, litigation, compliance, intellectual property, government affairs, securities regulation and mergers and acquisitions.

From 2003 to 2006, Lieb served as senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary for Symbol Technologies. From 1997 to 2003 he served in several legal positions including Deputy General Counsel with International Paper Company.

Lieb's professional experience also includes serving as a partner at Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, a prosecutor for the United States Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York, an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School and as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger and for Judge Amalya Kearse of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

He holds a BA, with honors, from Yale and a JD from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was managing editor of the University of Michigan Law Review.

About Aon

Aon Corporation (NYSE: AOC) is the leading global provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and human capital consulting. Through its more than 37,000 colleagues worldwide, Aon readily delivers distinctive client value via innovative and effective risk management and workforce productivity solutions. Aon's industry-leading global resources and technical expertise are delivered locally through more than 500 offices in more than 120 countries. Named the world's best broker by Euromoney magazine's 2008 and 2009 Insurance Survey, Aon also ranked highest on Business Insurance's listing of the world's largest insurance brokers based on commercial retail, wholesale, reinsurance and personal lines brokerage revenues in 2008. A.M. Best deemed Aon the number one insurance broker based on brokerage revenues in 2007 and 2008, and Aon was voted best insurance intermediary, best reinsurance intermediary and best employee benefits consulting firm in 2007 and 2008 by the readers of Business Insurance. For more information on Aon, log onto http://www.aon.com/.

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