Brooke Harms

Brooke A. Harms

Associate
Sioux Falls

Brooke is an associate in the firm’s Business and Transactions Department, practicing in the areas of corporate and business law, mergers and acquisitions, and real estate. She also acts as outside general counsel to clients, working directly with business owners and leaders to meet a variety of transactional needs, and provides advice on various matters including formation, shareholder agreements, internal corporate structuring and restructuring, operational issues, and management succession.

Brooke graduated from law school with a concentration in Intellectual Property and previously served as both a commercialization analyst and a contracts analyst in a university tech transfer office. She was responsible for screening new technologies for patenting, commercialization, and marketing as well as preparing licensing, non-disclosure, and other agreements between the university and other institutions.

Representative Experience 

Representative Matters

  • Represented industrial data connectivity company Open Automation Software in being acquired by SeQent, a provider of industrial alarm notification and plant-floor communication software, extending the combined company’s portfolio into edge-to-cloud connectivity, data movement, historization, and visualization.
  • Represented H.B. Fuller Company in its acquisition of Verdafresh, Inc., a flexible food packaging developer that specializes in fully recyclable, oxygen-barrier technology.

Professional Highlights

Board Memberships & Community Service

Special Olympics South Dakota Board Member (2023-Present) and Secretary (2024)
Rotary North Sioux Falls Member (2018-2022) and President (2020)
Leadership Sioux Falls Class 34 (2020)
Volunteer, Wills for Heroes (2019)
Young Professionals Network Member (2018-2022)
Sioux Falls Estate Planning Council Member (2017-2022)

Credentials 

Education

University of Nebraska College of Law (J.D., with distinction, 2017)

Doane University (B.S. 2014)

Admissions

South Dakota

Nebraska