Office scouts are scouring for space in central and southern Florida, Minneapolis and Calgary, Canada. In the past year, Staubach has opened stateside offices in Austin, Bethesda, MD, Columbus, Detroit and Phoenix plus unveiled a South American lineup in Bogota, Colombia, Caracas, Venezuela, Lima, Peru and Sao Paulo, Brazil.

"The business is demanding we have a more concentrated coverage," Leslie explains of the drive to integrate Staubach's branding into a single worldwide culture. The push had gotten under way in January with the launching of Staubach SAC, which covers the South American and Caribbean market, and DTZ Staubach Tie Leung, responsible for Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The Latin American inroad represents the crowning of the firm's international drive. Europe and Asia are "pretty well covered," he says, explaining a rounding out of Staubach's four corners-of-the-world approach.

Leslie emphasizes the company is being "careful not to expand to create a new overhead." It's just that a growing trend for large corporations to outsource their real estate needs is providing the impetus for the aggressive rollout, he says. The office openings, such as the one in Phoenix, are being sealed via joint ventures with existing real estate entities. South America's joint venture has resulted in Herzog Staubach and Staubach Spanish Americas and Caribbean Ltda. The latest scorecard shows 850 Staubach professionals in North America, with access to more than 6,500 professionals in 155 cities in a 41-country network. "There's a euphoric high any time there's expansion," says Leslie, "but there's not a lot of reason to do much more."