When Tom Godfrey joined IBI Corporate Finance in 1989, the firm was focused on the Irish public markets.  IPOs, placings, and capital raises were the bread and butter of the business, and Godfrey – then just out of university – was drawn in by what he described as a simple motivation: “I didn’t have a huge amount of knowledge, to be perfectly [honest]… What I did know was that IBI were the best.” Three and a half decades later, Godfrey is at the helm of IBI, now operating as part of DC Advisory, a global investment bank owned by Japanese…