Mayer Brown has hired Michelle Ontiveros Gross to expand its corporate and technology transactions capabilities in Northern California.

Gross, one of a few female technology transactions experts in Silicon Valley, will officially join Mayer Brown next month as a partner in Palo Alto, California. Prior to the move, she served as a counsel at Davis Polk & Wardwell’s office in nearby Menlo Park, which she joined from Venable in 2014.