Our white collar crime and criminal compliance practice has a unique edge. The group consists of former police officers, prosecutors, and judges, and legal professionals qualified to practice both in China and other jurisdictions. They have profound understanding of Chinese criminal litigation and compliance and can provide practical legal services on the strength of their significant expertise and rich experience.
Our group is specialized in providing comprehensive legal services to companies, entrepreneurs, and high net-worth individuals regarding criminal risk prevention, internal investigations and reporting of cases with criminal elements, handling of criminal crisis, and resolution of disputes involving both civil and criminal issues in various fields, including capital markets, investment/M&A, wealth management, cross-border trade, intellectual property, network security, environmental protection, corporate governance, and officer liability.
We have rendered criminal compliance services for scores of state-owned enterprises, multinationals, listed companies, and Fortune Global 500 companies in an array of areas, including anti-corruption, anti-fraud, anti-money laundering, anti-malfeasance, prevention of senior officers from being involved in criminal crimes, handling of criminal crisis, and establishment of criminal risk management system. We have also handled a wealth of high-profile criminal mandates assigned or supervised by the Ministry of Public Security, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the General Administration of Customs, and other authorities, which mandates involve crimes in relation to finance and securities, corruption, malfeasance, safety accidents, product quality, smuggling, taxation, and crimes with foreign elements.
Scope of Services
Services include:
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Review, assessment, and correction of criminal risks
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Establishment of criminal compliance system and formulation of criminal compliance rules
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Routine and special counseling on criminal compliance matters
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Criminal compliance training and warning
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Internal investigations and reporting of cases with criminal elements
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Handling of criminal crisis
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Criminal defense and petition
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Representation of victims in criminal cases
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Representation in criminal cases in which enforcement of property is challenged
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Representation in cases involving both criminal and civil issues