Ralf Lambsdorff

Ralf Graf Lambsdorff is the founding shareholder of Graf Lambsdorff & Cie. Unternehmensberatung GmbH, the predecessor of Graf Lambsdorff & Compagnie. The firm says it was founded in Wiesbaden in summer 2005 by Ralf Graf Lambsdorff and Michael Stolskij as an expert platform for M&A, corporate finance, and executive-search transactions.

His own firm biography describes him as having followed an officer career path and commercial training, with leadership roles in the private sector since 1985. The same profile states that he was a partner of Graf Lambsdorff & Compagnie Unternehmensberater Personalberater until 2020.

Graf Lambsdorff & Compagnie positions itself as a partnership of experienced management and HR consultants serving upper mid-market clients on corporate development, management, financing, M&A, succession, ESG/CSR reporting, and executive search. Its team page lists Ralf Graf Lambsdorff as “Gründungsgesellschafter” rather than an active investment partner.

I found no primary source verifying the stub’s “angel investor,” “seed round,” or check-size claims. Publicly available primary sources support an advisory and executive-search profile, not a personal angel-investing profile.

• No verifiable personal angel-investment thesis or check size was found in public sources.
• The firm’s transaction work is oriented toward strategic investors, family offices, private equity firms, Mittelstand holding companies, and mid-market owners buying or selling companies or stakes.
• The firm says it supports clients from strategy analysis and valuation indications through due diligence, LOI review, expert coordination, contract negotiations, signing, closing, and post-merger integration.
• Corporate finance work includes raising or restructuring capital, identifying financing models, preparing term sheets, approaching capital providers, and using a network of banks, private-debt providers, strategic investors, family offices, private-equity funds, Mittelstand holdings, and mezzanine providers.
• For management consulting, the firm states that good advice works best when “Sympathie, Offenheit, Fairness und Freude an der Sache” combine with expertise; its focus is advising entrepreneurs and managers on strategy, leadership, and financing.