Dowling Hales acted as financial advisor to Atlas General Holdings, LLC, dba Atlas General Insurance Services (“Atlas”) in its sale to Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (“AJG”) Founded in 2009 by Bill Trzos, Atlas is a San Diego, California-based full-service, multiline program manager and managing general agency (MGA) offering workers compensation, commercial lines and specialty property programs nationwide, with deep expertise in the California workers compensation market. Atlas workers’ compensation division president Mike Mathews, commercial president Charles Lasher and their associates will stay on at the firm under the direction of Joel Cavaness, the president of Gallagher’s US-based wholesale and programs arm Risk Placement Services (RPS). McDermott Will & Emery LLP served as legal counsel to Atlas.