Connecticut-based Day Pitney is acquiring Rhode Island-based trusts and estates boutique Howland Evangelista Kohlenberg and its Providence, Rhode Island, office as the firm looks to bolster its high-net-worth client base following related acquisitions in Florida.

Day Pitney will absorb the nine attorneys July 1, including Howland Evangelista’s two partners: Renée A.R. Evangelista and Max Kohlenberg. The Providence office is Day Pitney’s 14th.