Erika Kaneko brings over fifteen years of multidisciplinary professional experience to her role as founder and principal attorney at Kaneko Law.

Prior to establishing the firm, Erika provided legal counsel to private and public companies at Cooley, where she led numerous IPOs and guided high-growth clients through their most significant business opportunities and legal challenges. Before joining Cooley, she practiced at Weil Gotshal, focusing on sophisticated financing transactions, acquisitions and restructurings, and sensitive disclosure matters.

Erika's legal perspective is uniquely informed by her earlier career as a strategy consultant conducting private equity due diligence, and advising enterprises on human capital matters. This dual background—spanning both elite legal practice and strategic business consulting—enables her to provide counsel that addresses not only technical legal requirements but also underlying business objectives and stakeholder concerns.

 Throughout her career, Erika has developed significant experience helping leadership teams navigate inflection points that involve complex interactions between legal structure, business strategy, and organizational dynamics. Her clients value her ability to translate investor expectations into practical governance frameworks, to structure commercial relationships that balance protection with operational flexibility, and to guide companies through periods of significant change.

Erika holds a J.D. with honors from the University of Michigan Law School, and an A.B. with honors from Princeton University. She is admitted to practice in New York.