P&M: Citi's Attenborough moves up
Citigroup’s Tom Attenborough has been promoted to Managing Director in charge of banking operations in Central and South-East Europe.
Previously, Attenborough was in charge of ECM origination in CEE and Greece for Citigroup. Under his watch, the American bank has played a strong role in managing Poland’s mammoth privatisation programme and has been involved in bank recapitalisations in Greece.
His new brief, which began this week, will see his responsibilities extended to cover banking in general, including DCM and M&A. His immediate concern will be the winning of mandates on the Romanian privatisation programme – consortia headed by Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan respectively are in the running for the privatisation IPO of natural gas producer Romgaz, and RFPs for state-owned hydropower unit Hidroelectrica are expected soon. A follow-on sell down in energy utility Petrom is also up for grabs.
Attenborough has worked for Citigroup for 14 years, and was previously an ECM banker for Dresdner Kleinwort. The responsibility of covering ECM in the CEE region will now be taken up by Robin Osmond, co-head of CEEMEA ECM for Citigroup.