About Hopkins Centrich
Over two decades ago, Kirby Hopkins combined his litigation practice with Joseph Centrich’s business law practice to create Hopkins Centrich, a firm that could offer the best representation for business owners and their families across the breadth – wide as it is – of business law. It does not, however, end there. To bring everything we can to the table we, very early on, added general counsel services, and estate and succession planning.
Hopkins Centrich, A Full-Service Firm
Hopkins Centrich is a full-service business law firm that handles all business-related law issues (as well as the occasional compliance issue) for a variety of privately owned companies, tech firms, healthcare providers, and architectural firms, among many others . . . as well as an advisor to start-up ventures.
Our expertise is in business, litigation, and planning – business and estate. Our attorneys may have combined legal experience of well over 60 years but they never stop researching and learning as they always strive to be on the cutting edge – of legal issues and the technology that will better allow them to serve our clients.
Business Law Services
It’s virtually impossible to compile a comprehensive list of business law issues. The word ‘issues’ isn’t entirely accurate or apropos, either, as business law also encompasses designing and advising companies from the inception of an idea to the sale, merger, or transfer of a successful business decades down the road.
Hopkins Centrich, The Woodlands premier business law firm, has been the business law firm for medium-sized companies and closely held businesses since our founding. Over the decades, we have dealt with issues from initial organization to employment contracts and NDAs to contractual disputes to sales and mergers and everything in between.
General Counsel Services
Hopkins Centrich has been the primary outside general counsel (and chief compliance officer) for a variety of privately-owned companies from startups to family-owned businesses to mid-cap and growing multi-million-dollar companies to national enterprises for over two decades.
Regulatory issues are a constant concern for many businesses. Major corporations, of course, have internal law firms that are there to handle every regulatory issue as it arises. For companies that aren’t headed for the Fortune 500, however, that’s not practicable.
What is practicable, though, is having a smart, nimble law firm a text or phone call away that will respond to your every regulatory need.
Hopkins Centrich, The Woodlands premier business law firm, acts as general counsel for medium-sized companies and closely held businesses.
Estate and Succession Planning
Estate planning is more than ‘making a will.’ Everyone knows they need a will. Everyone knows, at some level, what happens if they die without one. There’s always a famous person in the news who died without a will to reinforce the point. The chaos that ensues is public and stays that way for years.
Failure to plan or not planning sufficiently can lead to challenges and costly litigation. This is nothing new, Charles Dickens succinctly described those repercussions in Bleak House, “We are always appearing, and disappearing, and swearing, and interrogating, and filing, and cross-filing, and arguing, and sealing, and motioning, and referring, and reporting.”
What Dickens wrote in 1852 is startlingly still accurate. Challenges and litigation are not the legacy anyone wants to leave their family. Hopkins Centrich collaborates with clients to create estate and business succession plans that are comprehensive, coordinated, and integrated while including contingencies for family, law, and tax changes. Estate plans that will allow clients to achieve their goals with regard to their legacy.
Hopkins Centrich understands that estate planning is as much an art as it is a science. We know it can be emotional; we know that even the most sophisticated client will find some instruments, some taxes, and some solutions arcane and/or complicated. Hopkins Centrich is skilled at making complex estate situations and solutions easier to understand.
This is just a handful of the issues and decisions facing our clients. Hopkins Centrich is adept at assisting clients with those decisions regardless of complexity while recognizing that some decisions are emotionally charged. Hopkins Centrich can guide you in these important decisions. We listen, we understand, and we make the complex easy to understand. Your estate plan can help protect against unnecessary taxes and, most importantly, do what you need it to do for your family, business, and beneficiaries.
About Hopkins Centrich
Hopkins Centrich PLLC provides cutting-edge, high-quality, creative legal solutions for business and business owners in Texas.
Our attorneys and staff have decades of experience in virtually every aspect of business law in The Woodlands and Texas. We have designed and incorporated businesses, managed their every legal concern, engaged in litigation on their behalf, aided with mergers and acquisitions, managed mergers, acquisitions, and sales.
Hopkins Centrich knows Texas business and estate law. We are uniquely positioned to help business owners from startup to merger or sale or transfer to family members.
When we work with a client, our sole focus is on them. We take advantage of everything technology has to offer to optimize how we work. That gives us more time to spend with you, more time to understand the issues, and more time to negotiate and prepare for trial.
We get that no one wants to contact a law firm unless they feel they absolutely have to. When they do, it almost always means that ‘things have reached a head.’
The attorneys and staff of Hopkins Centrich understand business. We understand business owners. We will make any legal process understandable; you will know what is happening with your case every step of the way, and you will never have to track us down for answers.