Eleven years after a tragic accident took the life of his younger brother, Frederick Leech is preserving his legacy by stepping in as corporate chair of the firm he helped found.

Leech, a former head of Reed Smith’s investment management practice in Pittsburgh, has joined Leech Tishman Fuscaldo & Lampl, a Steel City-based boutique established just over two decades ago by his brother Tony Leech, who drowned in 2004 trying to save his two young sons from a riptide in Costa Rica.