Practice Expertise

  • Business Services
  • Commercial Lending
  • Corporate & Real Estate Transactions
  • Corporate Finance

Areas of Practice

  • Business Services
  • Commercial Lending
  • Corporate & Real Estate Transactions
  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Environmental
  • Land Use & Zoning
  • Leasing & Property Management
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Real Estate
  • Real Estate Development
  • Real Estate Finance
  • Real Estate Workouts
  • View More

Profile

Denise M. Drake is Senior Counsel in Dykema's San Antonio office. Ms. Drake focuses her practice on corporate finance matters, advising clients in the purchase or sale of companies and assets, negotiating key commercial agreements, and ensuring corporate compliance with governance structures. Prior to joining Dykema in 2019, Ms. Drake served as in-house counsel for Marathon Petroleum Company (f/k/a Tesoro/Andeavor) for more than six years - most recently, as Associate Managing Counsel. In this role, she managed corporate and real estate matters for the company's midstream, refining and marketing assets. Before her tenure at Marathon, Ms. Drake was an Associate in the real estate group at Cox Smith Matthews (prior to the firm's combination with Dykema in 2015) where she represented developers, lenders, landlords and tenants in complex real estate and finance transactions.


Bar Admissions

Texas, 2009

Education
St. Mary's University School of Law, J.D., 2009 Trinity University, B.A., 2000

Areas of Practice

  • Business Services
  • Commercial Lending
  • Corporate & Real Estate Transactions
  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Environmental
  • Land Use & Zoning
  • Leasing & Property Management
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Real Estate
  • Real Estate Development
  • Real Estate Finance
  • Real Estate Workouts

Blogs

Cannabis Law Blog

The cannabis industry presents unprecedented opportunities for businesses and entrepreneurs. Yet, entities looking to engage in this emerging industry face daunting levels of legal complexity and uncertainty. Moreover, state and local governments are constantly tasked with regulating an ever-evolving industry. Dykema's Cannabis Law Blog discusses important cannabis-related legal developments, reviews the practical implications of those developments, and provides valuable insight for anyone...

Insurance Coverage Notes and Developments

Insurance Coverage Notes and Developments provides legal insight on topics of special interest to insurance industry professionals. Covering a wide range of industries, Dykema's Insurance Coverage Notes and Developments blog provides brief but substantive alerts, including updates and analysis on significant developments and trends in the insurance industry.

The Firewall

The Firewall keeps you up to date on the hottest legal topics in the ever-changing world of data security and privacy. As information security becomes a critical facet of all businesses and industries and the target of many regulators, it is important to stay apprised of new legal developments. The Firewall provides insightful legal analysis of the emerging issues in data privacy and cybersecurity law to help businesses stay ahead of the curve.

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