J. Vincent Jones

J. Vincent Jones is a shareholder at Woods Fuller in Sioux Falls with a business-centered practice. His work includes business and corporate transactions, energy and environment matters, government relations, and real estate development and finance. He represents small and medium-sized businesses as well as professionals, construction companies, developers, banks, farmers, and entrepreneurs. His practice focuses on helping clients structure transactions, address regulatory and property issues, manage business relationships, and resolve legal problems that affect ongoing operations and growth.

Vince earned a B.A. from Saint John’s University and a J.D. from the University of South Dakota. His education supports a practice that combines corporate work, real estate, financing, government relations, and business counseling. The legal training provides a foundation for drafting and reviewing agreements, evaluating regulatory requirements, structuring entities, and addressing disputes. This background helps him advise clients whose legal needs involve several connected business issues rather than a single transaction or isolated legal question.

Vince joined Woods Fuller in 2004 and developed a practice serving a wide range of business clients. He assists doctors, dentists, and other professionals with practice and asset purchases, regulatory compliance, employment matters, and related business needs. His real estate work includes transactions, development, mineral rights, leases, purchase-agreement enforcement, foreclosures, landlord rights, and ownership disputes. He also advises business entities on formation, maintenance, succession planning, mergers and acquisitions, contracts, and collections matters.

J. Vincent Jones serves as chair of Woods Fuller’s Business and Corporate Transactions practice group. His work reflects a practical focus on the legal needs of privately held companies, professionals, lenders, developers, agricultural clients, and entrepreneurs. He helps clients connect corporate planning with real estate, financing, employment, regulatory, and succession concerns. By working across these related areas, he provides business clients with coordinated legal guidance for transactions, operational decisions, growth opportunities, and disputes that can affect long-term business value.

Law Office Affiliations

• Shareholder, Woods Fuller Shultz & Smith P.C.
• Member, Minnesota State Bar Association
• Member, State Bar of South Dakota
• President, Board of Directors, Bishop Dudley Hospitality House
• Former Board Member, Sioux Falls Youth Hockey Association

Licensed State

• Minnesota
• South Dakota

Education

• University of South Dakota
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Saint John’s University
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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