DLA Piper has signed up two new partners for its Moscow office from the local arm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Jonathan Socolow and Brian Konradi will join the energy finance and corporate practice departments respectively next month.

The hires take the number of partners in DLA Piper’s Moscow office to 11, with three new partners joining the office this summer alone. Russia banking head Vyacheslav Khorovskiy joined the firm last month from Allen & Overy.