Brian K. Kirby

Brian K. Kirby is a partner at Boyce Law Firm in Sioux Falls with more than three decades of practice in corporate and business law, mergers and acquisitions, litigation, criminal law, and trusts and estates. Brian advises corporations, family-run businesses, closely held companies, and individuals on legal issues that arise throughout business operations, ownership changes, disputes, and long-term planning.

Brian earned a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from Arizona State University, a Juris Doctorate from the University of South Dakota School of Law, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of South Dakota. His combined legal, economics, and business education supports practical analysis of transactions, ownership structures, succession plans, and other matters involving both legal and commercial considerations.

Brian has formed and maintained corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, and other business entities. His transactional work includes mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, sales, purchases, shareholder agreements, buy-sell agreements, professional service agreements, and employee stock purchase option plans. He also represents individuals in estate and trust planning, guardianships and conservatorships, employment matters, business disputes, will contests, and state and federal criminal cases.

Brian K. Kirby has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for mergers and acquisitions and trusts and estates and has also received recognition in Chambers USA. Brian is an Accredited Estate Planner and has held leadership roles in bar and estate-planning organizations. His broad practice allows him to address business, estate, litigation, and criminal matters with a strategic approach grounded in long-term client relationships.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Boyce Law Firm LLP
• Real Property, Probate and Trust Division, Member and Past Chair, State Bar of South Dakota
• Current Member, Past President, Second Judicial Circuit Bar Association (1999-2000)
• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, United States District Court for the District of South Dakota – Southern Division
• Member, United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit
• Current Member and President, Sioux Falls Estate Planning Council (2011-2012)
• Accredited Estate Planner (AEP) and Current AEP Subcommittee, Member, National Association of Estate Planners & Councils (NAEPC)

Licensed State

• South Dakota

Education

• University of South Dakota School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• University of South Dakota
  Master of Business Administration (MBA)
• Arizona State University
  Bachelor of Science (BS) in Economics

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