Franklin Street has expanded its Atlanta team with the addition of Laura Stephens, as senior director of corporate occupier accounts. Her primary focus will be on growing the firm’s service offerings for office occupiers throughout the Southeast.

Stephens brings 13 years of experience in the industry, working with and representing a wide variety of real estate users, from small businesses to major international corporations. Prior to joining Franklin Street, Stephens served as senior director of global real estate with Equifax. Before that, she spent nine years with Cushman & Wakefield, where she primarily represented office tenants.

Throughout her career, she has taken on diverse roles overlapping in the areas of commercial real estate, corporate real estate, finance, sales, sustainability initiatives and project management. This experience supports her representation of clients in complex lease negotiations, development of repositioning strategies for commercial properties, management of corporate real estate portfolios and more.