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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
FORM 11-K/A
FOR ANNUAL REPORTS OF EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE, SAVINGS
AND SIMILAR PLANS PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
(Mark One)
     
þ   ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009
OR
     
o   TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from                      to                     
Commission File No.: 333-74483
  A.   Full title of the plan and the address of the plan, if different from that of the issuer named below:
 
Willis 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
 
  B.   Name of issuer of the securities held pursuant to the plan and address of its principal executive office:
 
Willis North America Inc.
Attn: Adam Ciongoli
One World Financial Center
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281-1003
(212) 915-8888
 
 

 


 

EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Amendment No. 1 on Form 11-K/A to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 11-K for the year ended December 31, 2009, initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 30, 2010 (the “Original Form 11-K”), is being filed to amend the Original Form 11-K to add the electronic signature of Deloitte & Touche LLP on the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. Items included in the Original Form 11-K that are not included herein are not amended and remain in effect as of the date of the filing of the Original Form 11-K. Except as otherwise expressly stated or where the context requires otherwise, the information in this Amendment No. 1 speaks as of June 30, 2010, the date on which the Original Form 11-K was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 


 

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To The Benefits Committee
Willis North America Inc.
Nashville, Tennessee
We have audited the accompanying statements of net assets available for benefits of the Willis 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (the “Plan”) as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, and the related statement of changes in net assets available for benefits for the year ended December 31, 2009. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Plan’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. The Plan is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Plan’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, such financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the net assets available for benefits of the Plan as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, and the changes in net assets available for benefits for the year ended December 31, 2009, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Our audits were conducted for the purpose of forming an opinion on the basic financial statements taken as a whole. The supplemental schedule of assets (held at end of year) as of December 31, 2009, is presented for the purpose of additional analysis and is not a required part of the basic financial statements, but is supplementary information required by the Department of Labor’s Rules and Regulations for Reporting and Disclosure under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. This supplemental schedule is the responsibility of the Plan’s management. Such supplemental schedule has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in our audit of the basic 2009 financial statements and, in our opinion, is fairly stated in all material respects when considered in relation to the basic 2009 financial statements taken as a whole.
As discussed in Note 1 to the financial statements, on December 31, 2008, the Hilb Rogal & Hobbs (HRH) Retirement Savings Plan assets were transferred into the Plan.
/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP

June 25, 2010

 


 

SIGNATURE
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the trustee has duly caused this annual report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
         
  WILLIS 401(K) RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN
 
 
  By:   /s/ Jennifer Neihoff    
     Jennifer Neihoff   
     Vice President, Director of Employee Relations & Benefits
Willis North America Inc.
 
 
Dated: July 20, 2010