Former Co-Lead of Linklaters’ U.S. Offices Rejoins O’Melveny (1)

Jeffrey Norton, the former U.S. co-managing partner of Linklaters, is returning to his former longtime firm O’Melveny & Myers from Dechert in New York.

“I don’t view this as a lateral move,” said Norton, who joins O’Melveny as a partner on its corporate finance team. “I view this as sort of getting back to where I probably always should have been.”

Norton first joined O’Melveny as an associate over three decades ago before becoming partner in 1994. He was a part of the firm’s initial expansion of its finance practice when he moved to New York from its Los Angeles ...