about Lamoral

Born and raised in the idyllic Southern German countryside, I spent a fair share of my youth in the Alps on skis, bikes and hiking. I left that tranquility behind to pursue a masters degree in business administration and a career in corporate finance. I had already been introduced to surfing early in my career when I married an Australian beauty so it was inevitable that Australia would play an important role in my future life and career decisions.

I took my first career steps with Banca Monte dei Paschi di Sienna in Paris and afterwards with the finance department of Daimler Benz North America in NYC, where I met my future wife. In 1999, I joined PwC in Berlin to learn the accounting ropes before transitioning into full-scale corporate finance with leading German mid-cap mergers & acquisitions (M&A) firm Ferber & Co. in Munich. At Ferber & Co. I advised numerous family businesses of the famed German Mittelstand as well as national and international private equity clients on many successful M&A transactions and capital raisings. 

In 2006, we moved to Sydney where I joined the leading M&A house in Australia at the time, UBS Investment Bank, where I advised medium to large-sized industrial, medical and healthcare businesses as well as Australian private equity firms. In 2007, I helped charter new financial territory, when my team and I managed and closed what was the largest take-private in Australian history at the time, the acquisition of DCA Group by CVC.

2009 saw us moving back to Munich, Germany, where I joined a small private equity outfit with a focus on providing capital to small and medium-sized luxury and consumer brand businesses struggling with the effects of the GFC as well as investing in fintech start-ups. Two years later I received an offer I could not refuse from US mid-cap investment bank C.W. Downer & Co. in Frankfurt, where I spent the next four years advising European and UK clients on M&A transactions and capital raisings.