Sarah Dabek
Sarah specialises in providing legal advice on all aspects of non-contentious real estate matters. Known for her personable and collaborative style, Sarah builds trusted relationships and delivers excellent service and commercially astute advice.
Specialisms & Areas of Work
Legal 500
Biography
Sarah is a Senior Associate in the Real Estate team at Myerson and has been with the firm since beginning her training contract in 2016, subsequently qualifying into the Real Estate team in 2018 and achieving promotions to Associate in 2021 and Senior Associate in 2024.
Sarah has over 8 years of experience providing legal advice on all aspects of non-contentious real estate matters, including:
- Landlord and tenant matters, including new leases, licences to alter, licences to assign, licences to underlet, renewal leases, lease assignments, deeds of variation and deeds of surrender
- Commercial sales and purchases of vacant and multi-let properties
- Property financing and secured lending
- Auction sales and purchases
- Corporate support on complex share and asset sales and purchases
- Development matters, including option agreements, conditional contracts, overage agreements and section 106 agreements
- Land law matters, including deeds of easement and deeds of covenant
Sarah acts for a broad range of clients including landlords, tenants, investors, pension funds, lenders and developers across a wide range of sectors such as retail, office, industrial, hospitality and leisure and agriculture.
Internally at Myerson, Sarah delivers training sessions to colleagues on various real estate related topics and supervises junior members of the team. Outside of the department, Sarah delivers advanced training to new starters on using the firm’s case management system. Sarah is also involved in all aspects of business development for the department and the firm.
Client Feedback
Mr. Altrincham
Thanks for all your help you did an excellent job and our very best wishes for your future career.
Leslie
This transaction was complicated by historical issues regarding the ownership of land with an adjoining property which had previously been under the same ownership. The matter was dealt with in an excellent and professional manner which required persistence and patience.
Ian
Delighted with a thoroughly dedicated and tenacious representation from Sarah. Sarah absolutely kept the other side on their toes and managed the negotiations to a tee. A great result for my business. Highly recommended.
George
After several commercial leases arranged for us by Sarah, I’m grateful for the opportunity to express my sincere thanks to her. 100% professional and committed from the beginning to end on all of them, efficient and a pleasure able experience. For any business in the future, I will always regard her as an integral part of the team and project. Thanks again Sarah
Julian
I had two land transactions to conduct, complicated title history in one case, sensitive negotiations on overage provisions in the other. Both were handled extremely well, with focussed and helpful updates and clarity on next steps at each stage.
Neil
We used Sarah at Myerson for a commercial lease transaction. All work was quick and thorough with useful advice and guidance.
Mr V
Those that I dealt with in Myerson, especially Sarah Dabek, have been so helpful and patient. They gave me the impression that they are on my side and not filling up time sheets.
Mr S
I have been very impressed with Sarah, whose diligence is absolutely confidence-inspiring. Thank you.
Mrs J
Sarah has been excellent throughout, informing me of the progress on my case and dealing with all matters at hand. I couldn't have been in safer hands.
Mrs K
Excellent service. We used Sarah at Myerson for a commercial lease transaction. All work was quick and thorough with useful advice and guidance.
Mr I
Extremely efficient, returned all my calls on the same day. Costs were very transparent and agreed in advance. I appreciated advanced notice by email - explaining that I was approaching the agreed fee limit, giving me the opportunity to decide how I wished to proceed. I felt very confident with the whole Myerson team.
Recent Experience
- Acting for the AkzoNobel Group of companies in connection with the management of its multi-million pound rental portfolio of Dulux Decorator Centres and paint manufacturing centres across the UK, including leases (often with agreements for lease conditional on landlord and/or tenant works), renewal leases, lease regears, assignments and subleases, licences for alterations and wayleave agreements.
- Acting for Marnshaw Limited on the sale of Bridge Trading Estate in Bury, a 49,880 sq ft multi-let industrial estate with a rental income of £397,250 per annum. Prior to this, Sarah was involved in the site advising the client on landlord and tenant matters for a number of years.
- Acting for a client which provides high quality settled accommodation to individuals on a complex multi-stage transaction involving the intragroup sale and purchase of properties, the refinancing of the properties and the subsequent leasing of the properties to a supported housing provider.
- Providing corporate support on a complex share sale involving two property interests of former landfill sites, including preparing new leases, drafting transfer deeds, dealing with the sale documentation and deducing title, reviewing the property aspects of the share purchase agreement and advising on property warranties, providing input in relation to a tripartite demerger agreement, providing input in relation to a dividend in specie and dealing with post completion stamp duty land tax and Land Registry requirements.
Awards & Rankings
Legal 500 — Recommended Lawyer
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