Carter Ledyard & Milburn (New York): Steven Paul McSloy joins the corporate department as partner and will focus on finance, including commercial lending, debt-securities issuance, tax-exempt lending, workouts, joint ventures and general corporate matters. McSloy was a partner at Dentons.

Dentons (Palo Alto): Maria Sendra joins the corporate practice as partner and will focus on securities, mergers and acquisitions and foreign markets transactions for the emerging-technology, life-sciences, clean-technology and renewable-energy industries. Previously, Sendra was a partner at Jones day.