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The investment banker has climbed Mount Everest, a feat that bears some resemblance to his work advising struggling U.K. banks.
When Basil Geoghegan reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 19, 2011, he didn't get carried away. "With Everest it's not just about getting to the top," the Citigroup banker says. "The job isn't done until you're at the bottom, and there is an awful lot that can go wrong on the way down."
Geoghegan (pronounced "gay-gan"), 43, brings that self-control and pragmatism to mergers and acquisitions and equity deals. The London-based managing director with Citi's financial institutions group worked on last month's Pounds 5.8 billion ($9.4 billion) rights issue by Barclays. Geoghegan had dealt with the British bank before: In 2008, as a managing director at Goldman Sachs Group, the Irishman advised Sheikh Mansour bin-Zayed bin-Sultan al-Nahyan, deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, on a Pounds 3.6 billion investment that helped London-based Barclays avoid a taxpayer bailout after the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings.
Since joining Citi in 2011, Geoghegan has taken on responsibility for the U.S. bank's U.K. financial institutions clients and oversight of its Irish business. Last year he represented U.S. power management...