LOS ANGELES – December 11, 2025 – Connect CRE has named CEO and Managing Partner Christianne (Chris) F. Kerns in its "Lawyers in Real Estate Awards" for 2025. This award celebrates real estate attorneys who have distinguished themselves in their practice and the larger community. To view Chris's profile, click here.

Chris is the first CEO and female Managing Partner of Hahn & Hahn. In this role, she is responsible for strategy and firm leadership, which includes developing, implementing, and driving organizational goals, procedures, and policies; managing all aspects of the firm’s operations; and overseeing business development. She also maintains her legal practice, advising management teams to identify and proactively mitigate risk, achieve financial sustainability, manage legal and regulatory compliance, discreetly resolve sensitive internal challenges, and develop high-level, long-term solutions that benefit all stakeholders. Her decades of industry experience provide her with in-depth knowledge of complex debt and capital strategies, inorganic growth strategies, strategic partnerships, complex financing acquisitions, commercial real estate, M&A activities, and other business transactions.

Hahn & Hahn LLP, a certified Women Owned Business Enterprise, is a leader in the California business and legal communities celebrating over 125 years of providing steadfast legal counsel to Southern California businesses and individuals. Founded in 1899, the firm represents institutional clients of all sizes, entrepreneurs, innovators, business owners, family offices, charitable organizations and high net worth individuals in their corporate, real estate, employment and financing matters, as well as commercial, employment and real estate litigation, eminent domain, bankruptcy and restructuring, estate planning and family law issues.