Liam Booth has lived and breathed deals since the mid-1980s when he first signed up at a fledgling NCB, shortly after it had been founded by Dermot Demond and Nigel McDermott. In the decades that passed, he has been in the middle of takeover battles, flotations, acquisitions, sales and mergers. His career has been diverse, rising to become head of corporate finance in NCB when its management bought out the business from Ulster Bank in 2003, before leading Investec’s corporate finance team after it bought the stockbroker in 2012. Now, 36 years after his first day with NCB, Booth is…