Christine F Hesse

Christine Hesse focuses on banking, financial services, mortgage finance and housing issues. Ms. Hesse also works on issues pending before state government. Ms. Hesse represents clients in the financial services arena, including securities firms, insurance companies, banks, and mortgage finance and housing entities. She has extensive experience working with the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services and the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, as well as federal agencies such as the Department of Housing & Urban Development and the Department of the Treasury. Ms. Hesse also co-manages Akin Gump’s Stakeholder Grasstops Lobbying program, which focuses on identifying, educating and mobilizing local and state opinion leaders in support of a corporate objective. These objectives may involve providing community support for a federal or state regulatory filing, supporting or opposing federal or state legislation, or simply providing community relations. Prior to joining Akin Gump, Ms. Hesse was a legislative counsel on the U.S. Senate Banking Committee. She also worked on banking- and housing-related appropriations matters with the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee. Ms. Hesse has a strong working knowledge of state politics. In addition to her management of the firm’s state Stakeholder program, she previously worked for the Ohio and Connecticut legislatures and the Ohio Attorney General’s Office. She also worked for an Ohio-based association with issues in the real estate area and handled the association’s legislative and grassroots matters and political fundraising. Ms. Hesse received her B.A. from Miami University in 1990 and her J.D. from the Capital University Law School in 1993.