Business Law Attorneys in Texas

Here are some of the main issues that arise in business law: 

• Formation - What are the best options for forming a new company? What agreements are needed? What licenses and filings need to be made?
• Contract disputes - Disagreements over the terms, conditions, breach, enforcement, and interpretation of business contracts.
• Labor and employment issues - Matters related to worker classification, wages, discrimination, wrongful termination, OSHA regulations, unions, etc.
• Intellectual property rights - Trademark, copyright, patent, and trade secret protections and infringements.
• Corporate governance - Rights, duties, and decision-making authority within a corporation. Compliance with regulations.
• Real estate and zoning - Issues acquiring property, leasing, land use regulations, permitting, easements, title defects, etc.
• Taxation - Corporate income taxation, employment taxes, sales tax compliance, tax incentives, and planning.
• Securities regulation - Compliance with SEC regulations and avoidance of insider trading or other securities fraud.
• Antitrust concerns - Anticompetitive business conduct like price fixing, monopolies, and anti-consumer practices.
• International trade - Navigating import/export controls, customs requirements, foreign business establishment, and multinational commerce.
• Bankruptcy and restructuring - Corporate reorganization or liquidation under Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 bankruptcy laws.
• Mergers and acquisitions - Business entity consolidation and acquisition of companies, including related tax and governance implications.
• Regulatory compliance - Privacy, environmental regulations, industry-specific regulations, licensing, and government contracting.

Hopkins Centrich, Your Business Attorneys

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, architectural firms, among many others, as well as advisor to start-up ventures.

Our services are too wide-ranging and involve too many areas of the law to sum up in a few sentences. And, once we start using examples the discussion tends to then focus too much on one area of the law at the expense of others – all of which can and probably will pop up over the course of any business life.

Here, however, are some of the typical duties and responsibilities of a business law firm practicing in Texas:

• Advise clients on formation and structuring of business entities like LLCs, corporations, partnerships to fit their needs under Texas law.
• Draft and review contracts and agreements under Texas law including employment, vendor, commercial leases, merger, sales, joint venture agreements.
• Ensure client's business operations, contracts, and policies comply with Texas and federal regulations across areas like employment, consumer protection, tax, etc.
• Guide clients through processes like obtaining licenses and permits from Texas agencies that regulate their industry or business activities.
• Handle litigation matters on behalf of business clients before Texas state and federal courts.
• Protect intellectual property rights of Texas businesses by securing trademarks, patents, and copyrights.
• Provide counsel on Texas-centric business issues like franchise regulations, export/import controls, insurance requirements.
• Advise clients on M&A transactions, securities issuance, venture financing and other business transactions under Texas corporate law.
• Conduct legal due diligence reviews for business activities in Texas including real estate purchases, new locations, and investments.
• Counsel clients on development incentives, grant opportunities, and tax programs offered in Texas.
• Draft and review real estate purchase and leasing documents, conveyances, and rights assignment.

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 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.