Company: FFWM
Filing Date: 2025-07-08
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001104659-25-066425
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Company: First Foundation Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-08
Form: S-8
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| 10.1    |     | First Foundation Inc. Amended and Restated 2024 Equity Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Form 8-K filed with the Commission on May 30, 2025).            |
| 23.1    |     | Consent of Eide Bailly LLP.                                                                                                                                                                       |
| 23.2    |     | Consent of Crowe, LLP.                                                                                                                                                                            |
| 23.3    |     | Consent of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).                                                                                                                      |
| 24      |     | Power of Attorney (included in signature page).                                                                                                                                                   |
| 107     |     | Calculation of Fee Table                                                                                                                                                                          |

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SIGNATURES</div>

Pursuant to the requirements
of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements
for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Irving, Texas, on July 8, 2025.

| FIRST FOUNDATION INC. |                         |
| By                    | /s/ THOMAS C. SHAFER    |
|                       | Thomas C. Shafer        |
|                       | Chief Executive Officer |

<div align='center'>POWER OF ATTORNEY</div>

The officers and directors
of First Foundation Inc. whose signatures appear below hereby constitute and appoint Thomas C. Shafer and James Britton, and each of them,
their true and lawful attorneys and agents, with full power of substitution, each with power to act alone, to sign and execute on behalf
of the undersigned any amendment or amendments to this Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to file the same, with all exhibits
thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each of said attorneys-in-fact
and agents full power and authority to do everything necessary to accomplish the foregoing, as fully to all intents and purposes as he
or she might or could do in person, and each of the undersigned does hereby ratify and confirm all that each of said attorneys and agents,
or their substitutes, shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant