Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP is pleased to announce that the lawyers of Edgerton & Weaver, LLP will be joining the firm effective January 1, 2017. E&W is headquartered in Los Angeles, and focuses on financial services, security brokerage, banking, cyber and professional liability. E&W represents several of the nation’s largest and most respected financial institutions.

Sam Edgerton and Chad Weaver will join the firm as partners and serve as Co-Chairs of FMG's Securities and Financial Securities National Practice Group. E&W has eleven attorneys and two securities consultants, all of whom will be joining FMG. With the E&W additions and FMG's current attorneys in California, the firm will now have over twenty lawyers among its offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Orange County.

Ben Mathis, Managing Partner of FMG, stated:  “Sam Edgerton and Chad Weaver, and their entire team, are terrific lawyers with a national reputation.  We have known them for many years, and we are very pleased we are able to join together. Their addition to our existing attorneys gives us a formidable group of experienced financial lawyers and a strong team of litigators in California.”

“We are excited at this opportunity to grow our practice with a national platform," said Sam Edgerton. "Chad and I have worked together for 20 years and had many opportunities to join other firms, but this was a great fit for us.  With FMG’s existing financial practice, we will have coast-to-coast capability to represent clients throughout the country.”