AON announced that its Board of Directors has approved the appointment of Darren ZEIDEL as the firm's Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Company Secretary, effective July 12, 2019.

As AON's General Counsel, ZEIDEL will lead the firm's Global Law Department and manage Legal, Compliance, Regulatory and Public Affairs. ZEIDEL succeeds Peter LIEB who announced his departure from the firm in early June.

Most recently, Darren ZEIDEL served as Deputy General Counsel - AON plc and in the nearly seven years he has been with AON has held a number of senior legal roles in the firm. Prior to AON, he worked at HONEYWELL where he held various business segment general counsel roles in HONEYWELL's aerospace strategic business unit and at HONEYWELL UOP, where he led a global in-house law department. He began his legal career as an Associate in the Mergers & Acquisitions group in the New York office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.