Who We Are
RadicleLaw
RadicleLaw
Anusha Kakani
Founding Partner
Anusha’s radicle is to drive social change. From her middle school days, when she founded a youth group aimed at alleviating poverty, to her first job championing community justice while investigating white collar crime at the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, through law school, where she worked with destitute refugees to investigate and report human rights violations, and now in her practice, where she uses law for social good.
Anusha is a Harvard Law School graduate and a magna cum laude undergraduate honoree from the Elliot School of International Affairs of the George Washington University.
Anusha represents change makers including entrepreneurs, companies, investors, and nonprofits in the social impact and sustainability space. Her passion is to bring their vision to reality. Her experience covers diverse industries and transactions valued at over $50 billion in the aggregate.
For her trailblazing pro bono efforts in challenging recent legislation while representing an asylum seeker in successfully obtaining a temporary visa and work permit, Anusha was awarded the Pro Bono Publico Award from the Casa Cornelia Law Center, which provides legal services to victims of human and civil rights violations worldwide.
Anusha’s practice focuses on social entrepreneurship and covers a broad range of general corporate and transactional matters, including venture capital financing, strategic transactions, public offerings, corporate governance matters, and regulatory compliance.
Anusha has particular expertise working with new corporate forms like Delaware’s public benefit corporation (PBC), as well as counseling around B Corp certification and environmental, social and governance (ESG) and impact reporting. She also has extensive experience assisting organizations with registering as non-profit corporations and obtaining federal 501(c)(3) tax-exemption.
Anusha is also a Member of the Board of Trustees, for Support Organization for Kids in Need (SOFKIN), a nonprofit in New Jersey and Hyderabad, India that cares for destitute children and women, and has assisted in operations and fundraising for over a decade.
She also serves on the Advisory Board for SheTek, Inc., a nonprofit that provides mentoring and assistance with career placement and retention for young girls and women in the technology industry. Prior to co-founding Radicle Law, Anusha was a corporate associate at Cooley LLP and Shearman & Sterling LLP.
Anusha enjoys dancing, exploring the outdoors, traveling, and cooking.
Bar Admissions:
California | New York
Serena Wu
Founding Partner
Serena’s radicle is to be of service for the greater good. She believes that everyone has the power to change the world, starting with ourselves and rippling out in what we choose to create. From addressing social justice issues for the Asian American community in high school through advocating on behalf of indigent clients on consumer protection and tax cases in law school, she continues to use law as a tool for social impact in her current practice. Serena is a Harvard Law School graduate and received her Bachelor of Arts from UC Berkeley.
Serena’s practice includes helping trailblazing clients start companies, fundraise, structure corporate governance, draft employment and business agreements, counsel on securities issues related to NFTs and DAOs, navigate complex regulatory issues related to cannabis, emerging plant medicines and privacy and security, and resolve disputes.
In addition, Serena understands the need to discern potential pitfalls and risks for clients based on her litigation and regulatory experiences, such as complex, multi-million dollar commercial and securities litigation cases, bankruptcy litigation involving over $1 billion dollars in debt, high stakes regulatory investigations, and a myriad of pro bono matters spanning from bail reform in New York to employment litigation for restaurant workers.
She is committed to support, empower and assist those who seek to transform the status quo and serve their communities. She knows the importance of getting into the trenches with her clients to help them manifest their visions or advocate for their rights.
Outside of her work, Serena works with Reason for Hope, a non-profit focused on changing the approach to mental health care through psychedelic-assisted therapy legislation in New York. Prior to co-founding Radicle Law LLP, Serena was a New York litigation associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and was a co-founding partner at Plant Medicine Law Group LLP.
Serena enjoys traveling, hiking, learning new languages, and practicing meditation.
Bar Admissions:
California | New York
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