Our Services
Our capabilities are rooted in decades of experience and top-tier relationships cultivated from years of distinguished service in and adjacent to Virginia government.
Virginia Government Relations and Lobbying
The Seven Hills team is an experienced and innovative group that works collaboratively to achieve the best results for our clients before Virginia’s legislative and executive branches. We work together to protect and advance our clients’ interests by constructing effective strategies, engaging stakeholders, building coalitions, drafting legislation, testifying at committee meetings or other public hearings, and lobbying or advocating before key decision makers in the Virginia General Assembly, Office of the Attorney General, Governor’s Office, and state agencies. Our team has more than 50 years of government, political, legislative, and advocacy experience.
The Seven Hills team is an experienced and innovative group that works collaboratively to achieve the best results for our clients before Virginia’s legislative and executive branches. We work together to protect and advance our clients’ interests by constructing effective strategies, engaging stakeholders, building coalitions, drafting legislation, testifying at committee meetings or other public hearings, and lobbying or advocating before key decision makers in the Virginia General Assembly, Office of the Attorney General, Governor’s Office, and state agencies. Our team has more than 50 years of government, political, legislative, and advocacy experience.
We have worked inside all three branches of government and we maintain extensive and bipartisan relationships at all levels of Virginia government. This experience allows us to identify potential issues before they arise and to craft creative and impactful solutions when they do. Our team is comprised of strong and determined advocates who will prepare you for effective participation in a legislative, regulatory, or stakeholder process.
We can offer you a broad array of regulatory and government relations capabilities for your business, including guidance or representation before the legislative branch, major boards, and agencies of state government. Our overall approach focuses on a thorough knowledge of law and policy, combined with proactive interaction with key policymakers.
We meet each client’s unique needs with skilled advocacy tactics that include:
– analyzing legislative and regulatory concerns and opportunities
– drafting solutions and implementing those changes in the law
– advocating your views to the legislative branch, executive branch departments, and independent agencies
– establishing and managing coalitions of companies and individuals sharing common legislative and regulatory objectives
– preparing you for participation in legislative and regulatory processes
– responding to legislative initiatives and agencies’ proposed rulemakings with detailed impact assessments
– developing and implementing strategies to advance administrative solutions to parallel and support legislative actions and policy goals
State Attorneys General
We are well positioned to meet the particular challenges that clients face in working with state attorneys general, including the political and public relations dimension of state attorney general elections. Our State Attorneys General team has diverse relationships and deep experience.
We are well positioned to meet the particular challenges that clients face in working with state attorneys general, including the political and public relations dimension of state attorney general elections. Our State Attorneys General team has diverse relationships and deep experience.
Our team offers sophisticated support and will engage strategies to influence outcomes by finding champions for your issue and raising your profile within the state attorneys general ranks. We also work to educate state attorneys general about your issues and to develop relationships for long-term considerations.
Environmental Regulatory Relations
Our Environmental Regulatory Relations team offers sophisticated government relations capabilities to businesses, organizations, and associations that could benefit from representation before state environmental regulators.
Our Environmental Regulatory Relations team offers sophisticated government relations capabilities to businesses, organizations, and associations that could benefit from representation before state environmental regulators.
Seven Hills serves as the chief representatives before many state environmental agencies and other executive branch entities for a number of leading national companies, professional associations, and cutting-edge innovators. Our team approach combines environmental knowledge, political judgment, a vigorous work ethic, and proactive interaction with key environmental agency officials on both sides of the political aisle to formulate and achieve our clients’ public policy strategies.
Team members have significant personal relationships with key agency personnel throughout state environmental agencies and top level staff at relevant environmental organizations. This combination of strong environmental experience and political and governmental relationships gives our advocates the ability to approach our clients’ issues and develop solutions in ways that our competitors cannot. We use our environmental expertise, political judgment, and top-tier relationships with environmental regulators and staff across the country to head off problems before they arise and work to solve them when they do. We combine our unique perspective and experience with excellent relationships to deliver results for our clients.
State-Specific and Multi-state Strategy
We bring our strong government relations experience to strategic guidance in helping clients address issues with state laws and regulations impacting their businesses. We are exceptionally experienced in retaining lobbyists in various states, drafting legislation to advance your goals, and supporting lobbyists throughout the legislative process.
We bring our strong government relations experience to strategic guidance in helping clients address issues with state laws and regulations impacting their businesses. We are exceptionally experienced in retaining lobbyists in various states, drafting legislation to advance your goals, and supporting lobbyists throughout the legislative process.
Our support includes direct engagement with state regulators, drafting amendments, composing advocacy materials, and offering feedback to sustain your message consistently. We are poised to craft policy messaging that promotes your business goals and resonates with state-level decision makers. We are ever-ready to activate organized and fast-paced initiatives to align a state legislative and regulatory climate with the needs of our clients’ business.
Virginia Business Development and Procurement
We work with startups and Fortune 100 companies alike to expand their businesses within the Commonwealth of Virginia.
We work with startups and Fortune 100 companies alike to expand their businesses within the Commonwealth of Virginia.
We help our clients build relationships with decision-makers and state agencies, we educate key state officials on the client’s capabilities in the public and private sectors, and we identify new business opportunities with the Commonwealth and local governments. We assist with meeting preparation, follow up, and feedback.
Given our work as staff for legislators, governors, key appropriators, and the appropriations committees, we provide ongoing monitoring, updates, and advice on Virginia’s budget and legislative process. We are continually thoughtful about your business, offerings, and solutions.
Legislative Drafting
We have substantial experience in legislative and regulatory drafting, with a particular focus on working with emerging technology and traditional industry sectors to set up or revise existing regulatory frameworks.
We have substantial experience in legislative and regulatory drafting, with a particular focus on working with emerging technology and traditional industry sectors to set up or revise existing regulatory frameworks.
Members of the Seven Hills team have worked for multiple state legislatures as bill drafters and committee counsel, drafting hundreds of pieces of legislation every year. We have drafted model legislation used across the country. Our team regularly partners with clients to understand a specific business issue, identify the law on point, and draft legislation or amendments that can be used in multiple states.
Recent Representative Clients
American Trailer World Corp | Atlas Arteria | Boyd Gaming | Carilion Clinic | Dominion Energy | EarnIn | FedEx | General Motors LLC | George Mason University Foundation | Grafton Integrated Health Network | Institute for Advanced Learning and Research Foundation | Lifesafer Inc | Live Nation Entertainment | Microsoft Corp | Obvio Inc | Plenty Unlimited Inc | Qualtrics LLC | Smart Start | Smithfield Foods | Uber Technologies Inc | United Airlines | Virginia Association of Community Managers | Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys | Virginia Chamber of Commerce | Virginia Coalition of Private Provider Associations | VISA USA Inc | Zillow