July 17 (Reuters) - Citigroup ( C/PN ) has hired David

Friedland as co-head of North America investment banking

coverage, its top executive Vis Raghavan announced in an

internal memo seen by Reuters on Thursday.

Friedland will join the bank after a nearly 28-year stint at

Goldman Sachs ( GS ), where he earned the coveted titled of

partner and was most recently the head of the cross markets

group.

(Reporting by Niket Nishant in Bengaluru and Tatiana Bautzer in

New York; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli)