About Us

STANCU LAW is proud to represent startups and organizations doing impactful work for animals and the environment in areas spanning employment law, HR support, privacy/data security, commercial/contracts, litigation, trade secret protection, non-profit support (501c3 and 501c4), and regulatory compliance. We focus our practice on representing changemakers in future food tech (including cultivated protein, alternative protein, cellular agriculture, precision fermentation, and plant-based and animal-free products), climate tech, and animal advocacy. We are based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Stancu Law was founded in 2019 by Anna Stancu.  Anna graduated from Harvard Law School with a vision of using her degree to serve animals and the environment.  She started her legal career at one of the nation’s top law firms, where she represented Fortune 100 companies, startups, and non-profits alike.  She left biglaw to serve as the sole in-house counsel to an innovative legal advocacy organization for animals and the environment, and thereafter a publicly-traded medtech startup pioneering the nation’s first FDA-cleared portable MRI device.  Anna founded Stancu Law to provide reliable and nimble legal support to startups and organizations doing impactful work for animals and the environment.  Her clients include groundbreaking cultivated meat startups, high-growth health tech companies, and animal welfare non-profits.

Anna received her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with high honors.  She received her Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School, where she earned the Chayes International Public Service Fellowship and the Dean’s Prize in Negotiation.  She is a licensed attorney in the State of California. 

When she’s not hard at work for her corporate clients, Anna stays busy zealously advocating for refugees through every stage of the asylum process, caring for and roadtripping with her veritable zoo of rescue and foster pitties, and trying to avoid poison oak while running the Bay Area’s unparalleled hiking trails.