(Reuters) -Citigroup 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, 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)