Peatross and his local team, led by John Moe and Todd Hedrick,oversee the Bay Area portfolios of CarrAmerica, Equity Office andTrizec, which at approximately 20 million sf is the largestportfolio in the region. All three of them declined comment forthis article, as did the brokers directly involved, but other localindustry sources tell GlobeSt.com the market-leading portfoliogives them a clear view of the local landscape and, as a result, anadvantage over many existing and potential competitors.

"They've definitely taken advantage of the portfolio they have,"one local source tells GlobeSt.com. "It gives them good foresighton what's happening in the market."

The biggest of its recent deals was Cisco Systems' 12-year leasefor the entire 472,000-sf former Veritas campus at the south end ofthe MacCarthy Ranch development in Milpitas, west of Highway 880.The commitment includes an option for new space to be built on the34.5 acres of excess land that came with CarrAmerica's acquisitionof the vacant two- and three-story, three-building campus in August2006. Scott Mathisen and Erich Sengelmann with JLL's Silicon Valleyoffice represented Cisco.