Sarah Parkinson > Browne Jacobson LLP > Nottingham, England > Lawyer Profile
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Sarah Parkinson
Work Department
Commercial property.
Career
Sarah is the national head of our real estate practice and sits on the firm’s Executive Board. She is recognised as being a leading real estate specialist, as well as for her retail expertise, by Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners. Having formerly worked as an in-house lawyer at Boots, Sarah is particularly commercial and adept at getting transactions over the line. Clients say that she is the ‘go-to’ person for those complex, time-challenging transactions. Sarah has particular experience in dealing with the effects of omni-channel retailing on lease agreements and future-proofing these retail letting arrangements.
Sarah’s wide-ranging real estate experience includes development agreements, land promotion agreements as well as overages and clawback arrangements. She also has extensive experience in investment sales and purchases as well as office relocations and re-gears.
Recent retail experience includes high-profile acquisitions, re-gears, re-developments and complex phased relocations.
Sarah’s clients include Walgreens Boots Alliance, Wilko, Games Workshop, Motorsport Vision and Leicester Tigers.
Sarah speaks regularly at training events for the Property Managers Association. She also conducts bespoke training workshops for clients on a multitude of topics.
Trained DLA; qualified 1994; at DLA, Birmingham for training contract and first two years of qualification; in-house commercial property solicitor Boots Company plc 1996-2001; Browne Jacobson 2001; partner 2006.
Memberships
Nottingham Law Society.
Education
King Edward VI Camp Hill Grammar School for Girls; Reading University (1990 English and Music, 1st); College of Law, Guildford (1992 CPE; Law Finals).
Leisure
Music – cello and piano; badminton; rugby – Leicester Tigers season ticket holder.
Lawyer Rankings
East Midlands > Real estate > Commercial property: Nottingham and Derby
(Leading individuals)The real estate team at Browne Jacobson LLP works across the full spectrum of commercial property matters. Development and regeneration projects are particular areas of expertise, especially within the retail, leisure and logistics sectors. Property matters within the healthcare and education sectors are also focus areas. National real estate head Sarah Parkinson has particular experience in the effects of omni-channel retailing on lease agreements. Deputy head Barry Sully specialises in development land disposals and acquisitions. Suki Tonks is another key name, advising clients on complex development agreements and the acquisition of freehold and leasehold properties.
Lawyer Rankings
- Commercial property: Nottingham and Derby East Midlands > Real estate
- Leading individuals East Midlands > Real estate > Commercial property: Nottingham and Derby
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Nottingham and Derby
- Real estate > Commercial property: Nottingham and Derby
- Real estate > Construction
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Nottingham and Derby
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: defendant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Private finance initiative (PFI)
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Public sector > Public sector
- Real estate > Social housing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport