Dentons private equity partners Igor Krivoshekov and Eleanor Shanks are set to join Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Proskauer Rose as both firms work to boost their corporate capability in London.

Krivoshekov will join Akin Gump’s cross border transactions practice, while Shanks has been hired to boost Proskauer’s M&A practice.

Krivoshekov was one of the leaders of the UKMEA private equity practice at Dentons and had been at the firm for six years running a private equity practice handling oil and gas M&A.

He advises multinational groups, private equity and other investors in the development of their domestic and international strategies. Before joining Dentons, Krivoshekov was a partner at the now-defunct firm Dewey & Leboeuf’s London office for seven years.

Akin Gump’s London office saw revenue more than double in 2015 in its first full financial year since the merger with Bingham McCutchen, when the firm significantly boosted its private equity offering. The firm’s City revenue jumped 154 per cent from $35.8m to $91.05m (£63.05m) after the deal was announced in September 2014.

In a statement, Akin Gump said that Krivoshekov was “instrumental” to the ongoing expansion of its international energy offering.

Shanks was a partner in Dentons’ London private equity team for two years, after being promoted from the associate ranks in 2014. Her practice focused on advising leading private equity sponsors, other investors and funds, financial institutions and management teams

Proskauer global corporate department co-chair Ronald Papa said the firm has made a number of strategic hires in recent months to substantially grow its global corporate platform, particularly in the private equity space.

The losses come just a week after Dentons made a mass hire from Irwin Mitchell’s real estate practice in London.