Criminal Law Services
In response to the increasing demand from our clients for criminal compliance legal services, Lifang & Partners established a dedicated criminal law team in 2019. Comprising over ten highly-experienced criminal law practitioners, our team boasts exceptional professionality and holds prestigious educational backgrounds at home and abroad, ensuring a solid theoretical foundation. With decades of experience, our criminal lawyers have successfully handled numerous complex cases, enabling them to possess an in-depth understanding of the intricacies of judicial proceedings and effectively identify dispute focuses.
Furthermore, our criminal law team has fostered comprehensive collaboration with departments specializing in civil and commercial litigation, capital markets and securities. This strategic integration of expertise maximizes the advantages of professional division and teamwork, providing our team with a distinct edge in handling cases related to anti-corruption and anti-bribery, economic crimes and occupational crimes in financial and securities sectors, as well as complicated criminal-civil matters.
Our criminal law team not only excels in criminal litigation but also provides expert legal guidance in criminal compliance for enterprises. By ensuring our clients' adherence to relevant laws and regulations, we help safeguard their business operations and promote a culture of legal compliance.
Our legal services in this field cover
• Criminal defense: Assisting the parties involved in investigation, evidence collection, reporting, and accusation, etc.
• Internal investigation and reporting of criminal offenses: Providing various strategies and specific programs for enterprises to conduct internal self-examination and respond to external investigations
• Construction of criminal compliance system: Providing normalized daily compliance legal services for enterprises, including review of significant decision-makings and transactions, improvement of rules and regulations, and provision of compliance consulting
• Daily and specialized consultation on criminal compliance: Provision of legal services for the prevention, detection and resolution of criminal risks to companies
• Criminal risk management and crime prevention services: Representing clients to exercise the accusation right, assisting clients in the procedures of transfer and review of prosecutions, approval of arrests and filing of public prosecution, etc.
• Overlapped criminal-civil legal services: Providing legal solutions for parties in criminal-civil cross litigations
Notable Cases
Representing a star public fund manager on suspicion of “front running"
Representing several executives of securities companies and funds on suspicion of transferring benefits
Handling a case related to accepting bribes by non-state functionaries referred by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
Representing a client on suspicion of manipulating the securities market
Representing an executive of a investment bank on suspicion of insider trading
The case of the actual controller of a fund company on suspicion of insider trading
The case of an executive of a listed company on suspicion of insider trading
The case of a listed company on suspicion of manipulating the securities market
Illegal absorption of public deposits cases of tuandai.com, Neo Capital, Mama Money, Tenpay, and a Li-surnamed man with pseudonym“深房理”
China's first case of casino offense by an Internet company
Bid rigging case of a well-known central SOE
An airline company's criminal charge of trade secret infringement and theft
Representing Tencent in criminal-administrative convergence case over trade secrets infringement
Representing a number of victimized companies to appeal to the SPC for non-prosecution of contract fraud cases
Criminal risk resolution for all shareholders of a company suspected of contract fraud and duty encroachment offence
First instance over burglary of the chairman of a head jewelry supplier, and the case has turned into a contract fraud offence in the second trial
Criminal compliance and criminal-civil cross case
Training on "Corporate Anti-Fraud and Compliance" and "Employee Anti-Fraud and Occupational Crime Prevention" for a large multinational Internet company
Providing legal services on criminal compliance for a public fund
Representing a listed company in a criminal-civil cross case