Madderra & Cazalot is a commercial mortgage banking firm with offices in New Orleans, Louisiana and Dallas, Texas. The company was formed in early 2002 through a partnership of New Orleans-based J.M. Madderra & Company, Inc., a commercial mortgage banking firm founded in 1993, and Dallas-based Ron Cazalot. Brief biographic sketches on the principals, Mark Madderra, Ron Cazalot and Lori Lorentz are included in a later section.

Madderra & Cazalot formally represents Prudential Mortgage Capital, Key Bank Real Estate Capital Markets and Reilly Mortgage as a correspondent on all permanent loan products offered by these lenders. Madderra & Cazalot is a very dominant player in the financing of multifamily properties in Louisiana due largely to the excellent track record compiled by Mr. Madderra and his firm. Since its inception, J.M. Madderra and now Madderra & Cazalot has closed permanent loans and equity transactions on Gulf Coast projects totaling nearly one billion dollars.

In addition, Madderra & Cazalot is widely recognized in the New Orleans area as the foremost authority on the New Orleans multifamily market. Since early 2001, the company has produced “The Greater New Orleans Multi-Family Report” which tracks all major projects in the area and compiles rent, occupancy, sales and trends for each sub-market and the overall multi-family market. This report is distributed widely to multifamily owners, managers, lenders, etc., and is given extensive press coverage in the local newspaper and business journal. As a result of Mr. Madderra’s excellent track record and impeccable reputation, he was appointed by the Governor of Louisiana in 2002 as a commissioner to the Louisiana Housing & Finance Authority and he currently serves in that capacity. Additionally, he serves as a board member on the Apartment Association of New Orleans, The Home Builders Association and the Multi-Family Council of Greater New Orleans.

With the opening of the Dallas office in 2002, Madderra & Cazalot has now taken on a larger geographic focus with Texas and the surrounding states becoming central to the firm’s mission. Mr. Cazalot has resided in Texas since 1979 and has been responsible for financing permanent loans totaling over $500 million over the past five years.

J. Mark Madderra – Mr. Madderra is a graduate Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He moved to Louisiana in 1977 and has been employed in Real Estate Finance since that time. Mark began his company, J.M. Madderra & Company, Inc. in 1993. In 2002, J.M. Madderra & Co. expanded its operations into Texas opening a Dallas office with Ron Cazalot and changed the company name to Madderra & Cazalot. Mark serves as a Commisioner for the Louisiana Housing Finance Agency and as a board member for the New Orleans Apartment Association and the Apartment Council. He has served as a board member of the Metropolitan Area Committee, Southeast Louisiana Council - Boy Scouts of America, and the Home Builders Assocation. Mark can be reached at 504-835-6900. His email address is mark@maddcaz.com.

Ron Cazalot – Mr. Cazalot is a graduate of Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He moved to the Houston area in 1979 where he held executive positions in the commercial real estate field with firms such as Grubb & Ellis and Prentiss Properties. Subsequent to his relocation to the Dallas area in 1995, he held the position of Senior Vice President of Key Bank Capital Markets responsible for nationwide permanent loan placements. He held this position until April 2002 when he joined forces with J.M. Madderra & Company to form Madderra & Cazalot. Ron can be reached at 214-495-5676. His email address is cazalot@maddcaz.com.

Lori A. Lorentz – Mrs. Lorentz is a graduate of Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana and the University of New Orleans where she obtained an MBA with an emphasis in Finance. She is a lifelong resident of New Orleans and has been involved in the financing of real estate since the inception of her career in 1983. Lori began her career with Hibernia National Bank where she specialized in the financing of construction and interim loans on commercial real estate properties located throughout the Southeast. In 1997, she joined Standard Mortgage Corporation as Senior Vice President and focused on the placement of permanent, non recourse financing on all income producing properties including multifamily, office, retail, hotel, industrial, seniors, and affordable housing. In 2003, Lori became a principal in the firm of Madderra & Cazalot. Lori can be reached at 504-835-6900. Her email address is llorentz@maddcaz.com.