Your Trusted Advisor
Barry Shaw Sackett is your company’s trusted advisor and the Managing Partner of Trust Law Counsel at Goosmann Law Firm. He helps business leaders find solutions and engage in business opportunities by fostering trust and promoting action. Barry is part owner of Goosmann Law Firm and leads Sackett, a Goosmann Law Firm (www.sackettlawfirm.com) in Spirit Lake and Spencer, Iowa as well as the Sioux Falls and Sioux City offices. Barry’s business and legal experience stems from years as a business owner, chief financial officer, in-house counsel, assistant county attorney, and legal consultant. His current business involvement and past experience gives him perspective into the clients and leaders he interacts with in his work. Barry’s formal and informal education gives him the language and structured thinking to handle pressure and complexity. His practice areas include development, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, tax, estate planning, probate, and mediations.
Barry has been lead counsel for an equity infusion into a Northwest Iowa Company, which brought a $60 Million valuation (Link https://www.pehub.com/2017/10/nms-recaps-healthcare-staffing-firm-grapetree/). He also served as lead counsel for the purchase and development of Boji Bay in the new Headquarters for the company- $16 Million project (Link https://www.lakesbusinessnews.com/grapetree-medical-staffing-expansion-plan-includes-15-20-million-milford-headquarters-hundreds-of-new-jobs/1698/). In addition to his notable M&A and development experience, Barry negotiated with USDA for additional compensation and helped develop insurance products for euthanized flocks during the Avian Influenza epidemic for the 3rd largest liquid egg products producer in the United States. (Add link http://www.startribune.com/rembrandt-foods-egg-farm-could-be-largest-hit-by-bird-flu/301842401/)
Barry’s clients include owners, investors, business leaders, executives, developers, and entrepreneurs among the construction, manufacturing, banking, agriculture, commercial & residential real estate development, commodity sales, technology, and government relations industries. He helps these clients reduce risk and compliance expenses, manage opportunities, and set their businesses up for success to grow and find top talent.
Barry is curious and fluid in everything he does. He loves seeing visions become a reality, and this is the reason he became an attorney.
LICENSED IN: South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota and California
Barry’s “Why”
Barry is a father, husband, sibling and son – not in that order but each as needed. His family gave him incredible opportunities and continues to fuel his drive to explore and expand his world view. He stays busy currently focusing on running, triathlons, sailing, surfing, golfing and skiing, but that order has shifted, expanded and contracted over the years. Barry spends a lot of time in thought and faith, reading when he can and writing when he must.
Bar Admissions
- South Dakota
- Iowa
- Minnesota
- California
