NU Online News Service, Oct. 27, 11:05 a.m. EDT

Chicago-based insurance broker Aon Corp. said its Italian brokerage firm, Aon Italia S.p.A., has acquired Rasini Vigan? S.p.A., the seventh largest insurance broker in Italy.

Financial terms of the transaction were not released.

Rasini Vigan? S.p.A. was established in 1958 in Milan and is an expert in public entity, in particular in the sanitary field. With its focus on public entities and large, privately held companies in Milan, Rasini Vigan? also has branch offices in Rome, Verona, Naples and Bari, along with offices in London and Lugano.

Aon said that for Aon Italia S.p.A. this acquisition marks another successful step in its growth strategy. In the past few years Aon Italia S.p.A. has acquired several important bank captive brokers (Unicredit Broker S.p.A. - Unicredit Group; Sanpaolo IMI Insurance Broker S.p.A. - Intesa Group; BNL Broker S.p.A. - BNP Paribas Group; Claris Broker - Veneto Banca Group).

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