"Under their leadership, our Atlanta office grew meteorically to become the number one tenant representation firm in that market in just four short years," Stephen Siegel, chairman/CEO of the New York-based firm says in a prepared statement. "Our five million sf of transaction activity in 2001 greatly surpassed any other Atlanta firm."

The Shlesinger-Holmes team's most recent achievement was winning a hotly contested bid to represent Jones Day Reavis & Pogue in its 118,000-sf office requirement in Atlanta. The Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors recognized Shlesinger-Holmes as the city's top producing brokers in 2001 and 2002. The brokers' production volume wasn't disclosed.