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White Collar Crime & Criminal Compliance

Our white collar crime and criminal compliance practice has unique advantages and provides unparalleled legal service. Our criminal law team consists of 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 team 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 parallel civil and criminal proceedings 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 crimes, handling of criminal crisis, and development 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 relating to finance and securities, corruption, malfeasance, safety accidents, product quality, smuggling, taxation, and crimes with foreign elements.

Scope of Services

Review, assessment, and correction of criminal risks
Development of criminal compliance systems and formulation of criminal compliance rules
Routine and special counseling on criminal compliance matters
Criminal compliance training and preventive measures education
Internal investigations and reporting of cases with criminal elements
Handling of criminal crises
Criminal defense and petition
Representation of victims in criminal cases
Representation in criminal cases in which enforcement of property rights is challenged
Representation in parallel civil and criminal proceedings