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Yunhong CHEN

Mr. Yunhong Chen's forte lies in criminal law business, notably criminal compliance, low-level criminal violations, crimes of abuse of private and public office, financial crimes, corporate crimes, and other commercial crimes. Having served in the Law Enforcement Supervision Bureau of Committee of Political and Legislative Affairs, Mr. Chen has considerable experience in coordinating and overseeing the handling of cases that were particularly high-profile and complex, including criminal offences committed by high-ranking officials and major economic crimes.

Representative Matters

Criminal Cases

  • Represented Feng, vice president of Shijiazhuang Lecheng Creative International Trade City Development Co., Ltd. in an embezzlement case involving CNY 800 million and secured the client through effective defense strategies a relatively lenient sentence of two years’ imprisonment 

  • Represented Jia, general manager of the second bond sales and trading department of Minsheng Securities Co., Ltd., who was suspected of embezzlement and accepting bribes, involving CNY 30 million and secured the client probation through effective defense strategies 

  • Represented Wang, who was suspected of issuing false value-added tax invoices totaling CNY 36 billion and secured the client through effective defense strategies a prison sentence of 10 years and six months that was considered less severe compared to other possible penalties

  • Represented Gao, former Guinean market manager of TBEA Co., Ltd., who was suspected of smuggling weapons and ammunition and successfully secured a complete acquittal for the client, resulting in no charges being pressed

  • Represented Liu, an entrepreneur based in Hebei who was suspected of picking quarrels and provoking trouble and illegally possessing guns and ammunition, and got the case dropped by the public security authority by virtue of effective defense of the client

  • Represented Wang, a Chinese-American and returned entrepreneur, who was falsely accused of rape, and persuaded the procuratorate to decide not to prosecute via effective legal defense

  • Represented Bai, a graduate student of Minzu University of China who was falsely accused of rape, and persuaded the procuratorate to decide not to prosecute via effective legal defense 

  • Represented Zhang, former secretary of the Party Branch of Beijingoutun Village, Henanzhai Town, Miyun District, Beijing, who was suspected of corruption, and lowered the alleged amount of corruption from CNY 10 million to CNY 6 million via effective legal defense

  • Represented Sun who was suspected of the crime of illegally absorbing public savings and got the client acquitted without arrest through effective legal defense

  • Represented Zhang who was suspected of embezzlement and got the client acquitted without arrest through effective legal defense

  • Represented Hong who was suspected of illegally absorbing public savings and got the client acquitted without arrest through effective legal defense

  • Represented Li who was suspected of illegally absorbing public savings and got the client acquitted without arrest through effective legal defense

  • Represented Liu who was suspected of forging, tampering with, or trading any official document, certificate, or seal of an authority and got the client acquitted without arrest through effective legal defense

  • Represented Sun who was suspected of billing fraud and got the client acquitted without arrest through effective legal defense

  • Represented Gao who was suspected of embezzlement and got the client acquitted without arrest through a successful legal defense strategy that demonstrated the insufficiency of evidence

  • Represented Huang who was suspected of obstructing governmental duties and got the client acquitted without arrest through effective legal defense

  • Represented an employee of a pharmaceutical company who was suspected of a criminal offense and got the client acquitted without arrest through effective legal defense

  • Represented Ju was suspected of fraud and, by implementing effective defense, successfully appealed to the second instance court, resulting in the case being remanded to the original trial court for retrial

  • Represented Jin, an employee of a technology company in Beijing who was suspected of illicit procurement of national secrets, and got the client acquitted without arrest through effective legal defense

  • Represented Chen, a business developer of Beijing Missfresh Co., Ltd. who was suspected of embezzlement, and got the client a sentence below the statutory minimum through effective legal defense

  • Represented Shao, who was accused of sabotaging computer information systems, and got the client a lenient sentence of one year’s imprisonment through effective legal defense

  • Represented Zhou, the actual controller of China Tobacco Science Information Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., in the retrial for his fraud conviction

  • Represented Li who was suspected of running an online gambling house

  • Represented Mi, an employee of FAW-Volkswagen, in retrial for his accepting bribe conviction

  • Represented He, the legal representative of Hebei Shiyuan Information Technology Development Co., Ltd. who was suspected of organizing and leading the pyramid selling activities

  • Advised on the fraud case involving Zhejiang Lecheng Industrial Group Co., Ltd. as the targeted victim of an individual surnamed Lyu

  • Represented Zhou who was suspected of corruption and misappropriation of more than CNY 5 million of public funds and got the client a sentence of six years’ imprisonment via effective defense

  • Represented Ying who was suspected of defrauding a loan of CNY 1 billion and got the client released on bail pending trial after he was arrested

  • Represented Zhang who was suspected of abuse of power and dereliction of duty

  • Represented Wu who was suspected of corruption

  • Represented Li who was suspected of insider trading and the client released on bail after three months in custody

  • Represented Liu who was suspected of embezzlement and got the client acquitted without arrest through a successful legal defense strategy that demonstrated the insufficiency of evidence

  • Represented Xie who was suspected of picking quarrels and provoking trouble and got the client acquitted without arrest through effective legal defense

  • Represented Li who was suspected of forging the common seal of a company and got the case dropped by the public security authority by virtue of effective defense of the client

  • Represented Dai who was suspected of molestation and secured probation for the client through effective legal defense

  • Represented Tan who was suspected of rape and got the client acquitted without arrest through effective legal defense

  • Represented He who was arrested on suspicion of organizing and leading the pyramid selling activities and got the client probation via effective legal defense


Criminal compliance

  • Reviewed the anti-commercial bribery compliance plan of Yonghui Caishixian Co., Ltd.

  • Advised Huachang Financial Leasing (China) Co., Ltd. on its response to a crisis arising from a criminal case

  • Advised Mashang Consumer Finance Co., Ltd. on criminal compliance relating to its loan business 

  • Advised Beijing Leisure Interactive Entertainment Network Technology Co., Ltd. on the criminal compliance of certain gaming products

Honors and Awards

For Individual

National Procuratorial Theory Research Talent, 2010

Beijing “Ten Hundred Thousands” Talent Pool

Memberships & Affiliations

Director, Beijing Law Society Procedural Law Research Association;

Director, Criminal Procedure Supervision Committee of China Prosecutorial Research Association

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    PRC Bar, 2007

  • Education

    LL.M., Renmin University of China, January 2008 – February 2011
    LL.B., China University of Political Science and Law, September 2001 – July 2005

  • Professional Experience

    Equity partner, non-equity partner, and counsel, Zhong Lun Law Firm, August 2019 to present

  • Languages

    Chinese
    English