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Yunhong CHEN
Equity Partner / Beijing
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Tel +86-10-5957-2072
Email chenyunhong@zhonglun.com
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Practices
Corporate & Commercial Crime, Litigation & Arbitration, Compliance & Investigation
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
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Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications
PRC Bar, 2007
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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
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Languages
Chinese
English