Magic Circle Firm Loses Two NY Banking Partners

Linklaters lost two partners from its New York office this week: Jeff Norton, the former head of its U.S. banking practice and onetime U.S. managing partner; and it lost Sabrena Silver, also a partner in the banking group who had helped lead the firm’s working groups in Mexico and Ecuador.

The two are headed to different firms, with Norton joining Dechert and Silver joining White & Case.

At Dechert, Norton joins as a partner in the corporate securities group, and will specialize in leveraged finance transactions. Earlier in his career, he and Mark Thierfelder, Dechert’s chair of global corporate and securities ...