After months of working with it on the investigation of Penn State’s handling of the Sandusky scandal, Pepper Hamilton is acquiring former FBI director Louis Freeh’s law firm, Freeh, Sporkin & Sullivan, and his consulting firm, Freeh Group International Solutions LLC, the firms announced Tuesday.

The combination, effective September 1, broadens Pepper Hamilton’s corporate investigations, white-collar defense and enforcement practice in New York and Washington, D.C., the firm said.