About us

Drake Law is a modern, technology-enabled and internationally experienced practice designed to handle sophisticated, time-critical matters with strong quality control and commercial practicality.

Our point of difference is the combination of deep legal and commercial experience with real-world sector insight. This gives private capital investors, commodity traders, family offices and growth companies access to highly specialised advice that is flexible, commercial and more agile than traditional firms and large full-service practices.

The firm operates through a senior-led model, with the Principal assembling trusted consultant teams around the needs of each mandate. This allows the firm to remain responsive, scalable and closely aligned to the commercial priorities of each client.

Our expertise spans private capital transactions, M&A, commodity trading and offtake, structured trade finance, and governance and regulatory strategy.

Our People

Drake Law’s model is lean and principal-led, leveraging to industry-recognised experts for service delivered in a seamless manner under one firm’s banner. There is direct senior involvement on every matter, rather than junior lawyers overseen from a distance.

Sophie Drake

Principal

E. sdrake@drakelaw.com.au
P. +61 429 348 588

GradCG, GAICD, qualified Solicitor (admitted in WA, Victoria, and England and Wales), LLM (International shipping and trade), BCom (Banking and Finance).

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Sophie Drake is the founder and principal of Drake Law, bringing more than 23 years of international legal and commercial experience across capital markets, commodities, resources and finance.

She has worked across major markets in both private practice and in-house, including in Perth, Melbourne, London, Switzerland and Singapore, advising on matters spanning M&A, shipping, trading and commodities, mining and associated technologies, finance, and strategic commercial arrangements.

Her experience covers a broad range of sectors and commodities, including soft commodities, iron ore, coal, base metals, critical minerals, rare earths and precious metals, LNG, and petrochemicals, as well as the shipping and contractual frameworks that support those markets.

She is recognised for advising on complex, time-critical matters where clarity, risk allocation and execution discipline are critical.

Elize Conway

Consultant

E. econway@drakelaw.com.au
P. +61 429 348 588

LLM (Corporate Law), LLM (Civil Law), GradDipLegPrac, qualified Solicitor (admitted in Western Australia and previously admitted in the Netherlands)

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Elize Conway is a banking and finance lawyer, bringing more than 20 years of national and international legal and commercial experience across real estate, resources and corporate sectors.

Over more than two decades, she has advised both borrowers and financiers on domestic and cross-border transactions, working in private practice at top-tier law firms and in-house, including eight years at a major Australian bank, where she developed extensive experience in bank documentation and financing structures.

Her experience spans transactions across Australia, Europe, the United States and West Africa, advising major Australian gold miners, property developers and a range of domestic and international lenders.

She is recognised for her commercially focused, solutions-driven approach to complex, high-value transactions, helping clients and counterparties navigate risk to achieve financial close.

Sophie Drake

Principal

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Our People

Sophie Drake

Principal

Sophie Drake

Principal

E. sdrake@drakelaw.com.au
P. +61 429 348 588

GradCG, GAICD, qualified Solicitor (admitted in WA, Victoria, and England and Wales), LLM (International shipping and trade), BCom (Banking and Finance),.

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Sophie Drake is the founder and principal of Drake Law, bringing more than 23 years of international legal and commercial experience across capital markets, commodities, resources and finance.

She is recognised for advising on complex, time-critical matters where clarity, risk allocation and execution discipline are critical.

Elize Conway

Consultant

Elize Conway

Consultant

E. econway@drakelaw.com.au
P. +61 429 348 588

GradCG, GAICD, qualified Solicitor (admitted in WA, Victoria, and England and Wales), LLM (International shipping and trade), BCom (Banking and Finance),.

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Elize Conway brings bringing more than 20 years of experience in commercial practice, including banking and finance and commercial law.

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Meredith Campion

Consultant

Meredith Campion

Consultant

E. admin@drakelaw.com.au
P. +61 400 000 000

GradCG, GAICD, qualified Solicitor (admitted in WA, Victoria, and England and Wales), LLM (International shipping and trade), BCom (Banking and Finance), FES Super (Non-Executive Director), Starlight Children’s Foundation (Advisory Board Member).

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Meredith was a founding partner of the Perth office of Allen & Overy which merged with Shearman Stirling on 1 May 2024 to form A&O Shearman, the world's third largest law firm.

Meredith practised in the areas of corporate, commercial and energy and resources law and has advised on a wide range of commercial transactions, including takeovers, mergers, acquisitions, disposals, capital raisings and joint ventures. She has conducted comprehensive compliance and due diligence programs in those areas. Meredith has considerable experience in offshore transactions, having advised on a number of AIM, LSE, TSX and JSE listings and offshore capital raisings. She also advises on acquisitions and raisings by foreign entities in Australia.

Meredith was included in the 100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining in December 2013 and has been voted by peers as one of Australia’s Best Lawyers each year from 2010 to 2014 for Corporate work and Mergers and Acquisitions. Chambers Asia Pacific 2013 ranks Meredith in the Equity Capital Markets area: “Meredith is recognised for providing ‘an exceptional service and complete value-adding support’.

Sarah Wilkins

Consultant

Sarah Wilkins

Consultant

E. admin@drakelaw.com.au
P. +61 400 000 000

GradCG, GAICD, qualified Solicitor (admitted in WA, Victoria, and England and Wales), LLM (International shipping and trade), BCom (Banking and Finance), FES Super (Non-Executive Director), Starlight Children’s Foundation (Advisory Board Member).

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Jessica O'Hara

Consultant

Jessica O'Hara

Consultant

E. admin@drakelaw.com.au
P. +61 400 000 000

GradCG, GAICD, qualified Solicitor (admitted in WA, Victoria, and England and Wales), LLM (International shipping and trade), BCom (Banking and Finance), FES Super (Non-Executive Director), Starlight Children’s Foundation (Advisory Board Member).

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Jessica is a senior corporate law and energy & resources specialist, advising clients on major corporate transactions as well as general corporate law and regulatory issues.

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