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Mr. Hopkins is a member of the Business Transactions, Corporate and Taxation practice group at Taylor English. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and insurance regulatory and transaction matters. Mr. Hopkins has more than 30 years of cumulative service on the boards of NYSE and NASDAQ -listed corporations, with service on executive, nominating/governance and compensation committees.
From 1965 to 1993, Mr. Hopkins was a senior corporate partner at King & Spalding, where he was lead of outside corporate and acquisition counsel for a number of the largest corporations based in the Southeast. During those years he also served as acquisition, corporate and board counsel for three of the largest life insurers in the region. From 1993 to 2003, Mr. Hopkins served as General Counsel for Jefferson-Pilot Financial, including its life insurance and broadcast subsidiaries, where he led the legal effort on acquisitions totaling $2 Billion and supervised corporate compliance, including internal audits. From 2003 until joining Taylor English, Mr. Hopkins served as counsel to Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC. Mr. Hopkins has appeared in hearings before the Insurance Departments of many states, including Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, Missouri, Nebraska, New York and New Hampshire.
For approximately ten years, Mr. Hopkins was Chair of the Corporate Code Revision Committee of the Corporate Section of the State Bar of Georgia. He has spoken extensively on corporate governance and ethics matters at the Tulane Corporate Law Institute, where he is a member of the planning committee, at the Terry (UGA) and McColl Graduate Schools of Business Directors’ Colleges, and he recently chaired the panel on legal ethics and corporate governance at the Georgia Bar’s 25th Annual Business Law Institute. He has been engaged as an expert witness in litigation involving corporate governance matters and has served as an arbitrator in disputes involving insurance industry transactions.