Focus Announces Transformational Transaction; Buckingham Strategic Wealth to Merge with The Colony Group

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Focus Financial Partners Inc. (“Focus”), a leading partnership of fiduciary wealth management and related financial services firms, announced today at its semi-annual partners meeting that it is in advanced discussions to enter into a definitive agreement under which Focus partner firm Buckingham Strategic Wealth, LLC (“Buckingham”), headquartered in St. Louis, will combine with Focus firm The Colony Group, LLC (“Colony”). Adam Birenbaum, currently Chairman and CEO of