Representative Cases

Criminal

1) Criminal Defense

a.  Defense for Enterprises and Entrepreneurs (Selected)

• [Acquittal] Successfully defended a private entrepreneur convicted of fraud arising from financing activities, ultimately secured acquittal after six years of proceedings (original sentence exceeded ten years’ imprisonment; acquittal was announced on November 25, 2024 and became final on November 14, 2025);
• [Suspended Sentence in Supervisory Commission Case] Defended a private entrepreneur in a bribery and bid-rigging case jointly handled by the provincial supervisory commission, the local supervisory commission, and the local public security authority (the amount of the bidding project involved in the case exceeding RMB 600 million), and a suspended sentence rendered at first instance has now become effective;
• Provided systematic legal analysis supporting a not-guilty defense for an entity accused of a financial crime in a certain province (amount in dispute reaching several hundred billion RMB).
• Defended a private entrepreneur arrested in a special investigation conducted by the Public Security Department of Province F on tax-related false issuance of invoices and successfully obtained a change of compulsory measures from detention to bail pending trial within 10 days of intervention (client’s alleged amount exceeding RMB 100 million), and the procuratorate has then recommended a suspended sentence (total case amount involving tens of billions RMB, and the case was publicly reported by the State Taxation Administration);
• Represented a Hong Kong client in a case involving alleged smuggling of ordinary goods and articles from Australia and Chile and obtained bail pending trial within 30 days of arrest even when the client had no fixed residence locally;
• Provided defense services for the legal representative (a Hong Kong citizen) of a company accused of illegal mining in an ecological environment protection case supervised by the central government;
• Represented the head of a large state-owned enterprise accused of bribery, embezzlement, and private distribution of state-owned assets, etc. and achieved a favorable modification of judgment on appeal, including exemption from criminal punishment for one of the charges.

b. Other Representative Matters (Selected)

• Defended the principal criminal in fraud cases across several provinces carrying potential sentences exceeding ten years’ imprisonment under not-guilty defense strategy and achieved substantial sentence reductions including imprisonment close to the time already detained and suspended sentences in multiple cases;
• In a case involving client Li and others in Province H accused of illegal business operations, fraud, and scalping land-use right—supervised by the Ministry of Public Security and investigated by the provincial department of public security with reports submitted to the Supreme People’s Court—secured a lenient sentence at first instance and further reduction on appeal under a not-guilty defense strategy;
• In a jointly supervised illegal business operation case in Province H, represented client Chen and obtained a suspended-sentence sentencing recommendation from the procuratorate (Hong Kong-related);
• Represented client Dong in Province Z, who was arrested for alleged credit card fraud, and, after a series of evidence investigation and defense, not only obtained prosecutor’s change of the charge indicted from credit card fraud to fraud (indicating a lighter sentence) but also ultimately concluded the case with exemption from prosecution;
• Represented client Yu in Province N accused of illegal business operations and obtained a court judgment with a sentence only one-third of the procuratorate’s sentencing recommendation plus probation;
• Penned a pleading titled “On the Boundary Between Administrative Violations and Criminal Offenses: Facts, Evidence, and Application of Law in the Case” for a client who was involved in an illegal business operations case (every defendant prosecuted independently, with more than 1,000 witnesses in the entire case), whose investigation was designated by the provincial party committee and supervised by the Ministry of Public Security, and has now been released on parole.

2) Other Criminal Legal Services

a. Criminal Complaints (Selected)

• Provided legal analysis for criminal complaints on behalf of a public institution directly under a ministry or commission of the State Council;
• Provided criminal complaint analyses for insurance companies;
• Provided comprehensive criminal legal services, including anti-extortion and blackmail defense, for a Chinese high-tech company facing fraudulent claims for compensation from foreign individuals (foreign-related);
• Provided criminal complaint analysis in connection with a commercial arbitration for a company in the sports industry;
• Provided criminal complaint analysis for a foreign company defrauded in cross-border trade with a Chinese company (foreign-related);
• Provided criminal complaint analysis concerning both Chinese and foreign criminal laws for a foreign company in an international arbitration (foreign-related);
• Assisted a private company in filing a criminal complaint against a senior executive for embezzlement and taking bribes;
• Assisted a company in filing a criminal complaint against a shareholder suspected of embezzlement, who ultimately transferred equity and exited the company;
• Provided criminal complaint services concerning a shipping fraud for an agricultural trading company, in which a northeastern provincial public security authority was appointed by the Ministry of Public Security to investigate the case as a large number of victims and numerous provinces were involved;
• Provided a U.S. client with criminal complaint services in a cryptocurrency fraud case involving the United States, Singapore, China, Laos, and other jurisdictions (foreign-related).

b. Criminal-Civil Legal Services (Selected)

• Represented a client in a case involving financial crimes with losses exceeding RMB 10 billion where both criminal and civil proceedings were concerned;
• Provided comprehensive civil litigation and criminal complaint analysis in a land transfer and private lending dispute case (amount in dispute reaching several hundred million RMB);
• Employed criminal strategies in a private lending and contract for commission dispute and successfully requested recusal of the plaintiff’s legal representative; in conjunction with criminal complaints, prompted withdrawal of all civil claims by the plaintiff;
• Employed criminal-civil strategies to protect client interests (amount in dispute reaching tens of millions RMB) in a complex economic dispute lasting over ten years involving two criminal cases, one administrative case, and multiple civil cases.

3) Foreign-related Criminal Legal Services (Selected)

• Provided cross-border criminal compliance services for a Southeast Asian group entering China (model case officially reported);
• Provided a North American client with criminal complaint services regarding cryptocurrency fraud (involving the U.S., Singapore, China, Laos, and other jurisdictions);
• Provided criminal legal services as part of the comprehensive legal services with another team for a well-known Chinese trading company in a letter of credit fraud arising from an international sales of goods contract (involving China, South Korea, India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Venezuela);
• Defended a Hong Kong client suspected of smuggling of ordinary goods and articles and secured bail pending trial within 30 days of arrest despite lack of local residence (involving Australia and Chile);
• Provided comprehensive criminal services, including anti-extortion strategies, for a Chinese high-tech company facing claims by foreign individuals;
• Provided criminal complaint analysis for a foreign company defrauded in cross-border trade with a Chinese company;
• Provided criminal complaint analysis concerning both Chinese and foreign criminal laws for a foreign company in an international arbitration;
• Provided legal analysis for a Chinese entrepreneur arrested in Europe on allegations of corruption;
• Assisted a Southeast Asian entrepreneur in successfully unfreezing bank accounts frozen by a Chinese public security authority.

Dispute Resolution (Selected)

• Litigated in a dispute over state-owned land use rights with an amount in controversy exceeding RMB 400 million;
• Represented a state-owned enterprise in a deputy-provincial-level city in an application for mandatory enforcement, which was recognized as the leading state-owned asset recovery case by the local SASAC for that year;
• Represented Mr. Lin in a Province H judicial authority enforcement case originally filed in 1998, which was concluded under supervision of the Supreme People’s Court after our representation (spanning four decades);
• Defended a company against a state-owned group in a lease contract dispute with all the plaintiff’s claims dismissed at first instance (amount in dispute exceeding RMB 20 million by the time of first-instance judgment);
• By representing in the divorce lawsuit in China and providing non-litigation consultation for the divorce concurrently applied in Australia, assisted the Australian national Ms. Wu in gaining advantage in retaining assets (foreign-related);
• Represented Mr. Zeng in a traffic accident liability dispute against, inter alia, a people’s court, which was ultimately resolved through the involvement of the local political and legal affairs commission, multiple courts at two levels, and judicial mediation;
• Represented a general creditor when the mortgagee objected to the enforcement distribution plan, drafted a second-instance statement titled “On the Limits of Priority of Payment in Enforcement Distribution Plans,” which gained acknowledgement from the presiding judge of the Provincial High Court of Province F in the court, leading the appellee (mortgagee) to seek settlement after the hearing.