Sarah Blunn

Sarah is a commercial real estate lawyer with a wide range of experience in many different types of commercial property transactions. She acts for both landlords and tenants, investors and developers and handles all aspects of commercial property work, including disposals and acquisitions, leases, property finance, property development and property management. Sarah also deals with the property aspects of corporate transactions.

Although Sarah deals with all aspects of the property lifecycle, she has particular expertise advising corporate occupiers on HQ and regional office moves, property development and investment, portfolio management and clients in the financial, professional services, charity and hotel sectors.

A career highlight was acting for a consortium made up of The Wellcome Trust, Cancer Research UK, University College London and the Medical Research Council, which was later joined by King’s College London and Imperial College London, on the complex acquisition of land and neighbourly matters for the development of one of the world’s leading medical research centres in the heart of London, The Francis Crick Institute.

Sarah is keenly interested in the built environment’s impact on climate change, sustainability and wellbeing.

• Acting for Revolut on the relocation of its London HQ to the award-winning net zero YY building, taking leases of 113,000 sq ft across four floors, advising on all consents required for its illuminated external signage and on the exit strategy for its former premises.
• Acting for developer and regeneration specialist Summix Capital on its acquisition, development and exit strategies of sites for residential, student accommodation and hotel development.
• Acting for TT Group on the relocation of its London HQ to new offices at 5 Aldermanbury Square from its previous offices at London Wall, coinciding with its rebranding from Telereal Trillium to the TT Group.
• Acting for the highly acquisitive Hachette publishing group on the whole of its UK property portfolio, including acquisitions, disposals, subletting and general portfolio management of its central London and regional offices and state-of-the-art distribution centres.
• Acting for Nasdaq-listed precision technology systems builders, Novanta Group, on its UK property portfolio of offices and manufacturing facilities.

Sarah was a non-executive director for the What Works Centre for Wellbeing from 2017-2024.