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  • Yan GE

    Equity Partner / Beijing

  • Tel +86-10-5957-2288

    Email geyan@zhonglun.com

  • Practices

    White Collar Crime & Criminal Compliance, Compliance & Investigation, IP Licensing & Enforcement

CV

Yan GE

Based on more than thirteen years of experience in prosecuting cases, Ge Yan is especially good at defending financial securities, job-related crimes, smuggling and tax-related cases. She has been the first defender of the first case of manipulating securities market in Anhui Province, and has defended many high-ranking officials and corporate executives in job-related crimes. In addition, she has provided criminal solutions for many financial institutions, enterprises and individuals in criminal-civil cross disputes, and achieved remarkable results.
Ge Yan is at the forefront of anti-corruption and IP-related compliance in the industry, combined with years of practice in anti-fraud investigation and criminal compliance for domestic leading Internet enterprises, which makes Ge Yan more know how to take into account the profits from the perspective of enterprises while creating an enforceable and implementable compliance system and legal services for enterprises. She has now provided many large state-owned and private enterprises with pre-compliance and case-related compliance.

Representative Matters

Recent Main Performance in Criminal Business 

 

Corporate Compliance (While serving as a partner) 

  • Provided the leading Internet companies with permanent legal consulting service for anti-fraud investigation. In terms of anti-fraud, anti-commercial bribery, and other criminal compliance matters related to the leading Internet companies, and provided the all-round legal services such as criminal investigation, criminal reporting, and criminal litigation agent ad litem

  • Provided a number of large Internet chess and card game companies with the legal services of criminal compliance. To assist in establishment of criminal compliance system case database, formulate core compliance system and compliance rules, assist in establishment of information filing system, and offer the compliance training for senior managers and employees

  • Provided the legal service of criminal compliance for a large Internet music platform in China

  • Provided the legal service of criminal product compliance for an Internet voice live broadcasting platform in China, and assist the enterprise to analyze the criminal legal risks and offer rectification suggestions

  • Provided the legal service of anti-commercial bribery /FCPA criminal compliance for a large Internet e-commerce platform in China 

  • Provided the legal service of criminal compliance for the leading short-video live broadcasting companies in China, and assist the enterprises to assess the criminal risks and establish the red line system

  • Provided the permanent legal compliance counsel service for the leading Internet enterprises in China, organize and launch a number of compliance projects as the project leader, including e-commerce compliance, cultural recreation compliance, data compliance, and minors protection compliance, and provide overall compliance services for the enterprises

  • Provided the legal service of criminal compliance for a software technology development company. In view of the criminal cases involving the Company’s employees, to make full analysis of the possible compliance risks in the work process and work links of the Company, put forward compliance advices to the Company, and assist the Company to build a complete criminal compliance system

  • Provided the anti-commercial bribery compliance service for a leading dairy group in China. To formulate the regulations and guidebooks on anti-commercial bribery compliance management for the Group, and assist the Group to carry out compliance training and publicity

  • To assist a local financial regulatory authority in Beijing to conduct financial inspection on financial institutions, and issue relevant professional legal inspection reports

  • Provided the legal service of criminal compliance for a state-owned holding company

  • Provided the legal service of special criminal compliance for an international technical service company (One of top 500 enterprises). According to the regulatory requirements, to assess the criminal risk in the existing business of the Company, and offer the suggestions for compliance adjustment

  • Provided the legal service of criminal compliance for an investment consulting company. In view of the single emergency incurred to the Company, to predict the possible criminal compliance risks in the Company, offer the compliance training to the senior managers of the Company, and assist the Company to cope with the investigation conducted by the law enforcement agencies

  • Provided the legal service of criminal compliance for a parent fund company. Based on the actual conditions of the fund industry, Provided the Company with specialized and targeted legal service of criminal compliance 

  • Provided the legal service of criminal compliance for a listed biotechnology company, sort out the business lines of the Company in an all-round way, conduct field interview and investigation, and provide the Company with all-round criminal legal risk assessment service


Corporate Compliance (While serving as the Director of Anti-fraud Investigation in Tencent) 

  • Responsible for criminal reporting, judicial follow-up or internal handling and follow-up of the key cases occurring within the Company

  • Completed the building of Tencent’s anti-corruption and compliance team in Beijing, and take charge of management, training, reporting and assessment of the compliance team while working for Tencent Group 

  • Responsible for building of Tencent’s anti-fraud investigation team in Beijing, collection of case clues, allocation of cases, guidance on case investigation, assessment of members, and other work

  • Participated in revision and improvement of the Company’s compliance norms, such as “Sunshine Code of Conduct", “Procedure for Management of Suppliers", and “Procedure for Management of Contracts"  

  • Guided on compliance publicity to all staff of Tencent Group, and to make the compliance culture products  

  • Responsible for the daily work skill training of Tencent Group’s anti-fraud compliance team 

  • Responsible for the judicial cooperation and liaison between Tencent Group’s anti-fraud compliance team and the domestic public security organs and other judicial authorities


Criminal Litigation (While serving as the partner) 

  • Provided the criminal defense service for the Shao X serving as a senior manager of a leading Internet company, who is suspected of non-government official bribery acceptance and contract fraud case

  • Provided the criminal defense service for Guo X serving as a senior manager of a domestic fashion company who is involved in a fund embezzlement case, and obtain a guarantor pending trial successfully 

  • Provided the criminal defense service for Xiao X serving as a senior manager of an investment company, who is involved in a corporate bribery case  

  • Provided the criminal defense services for the first securities market manipulation case in Anhui Province. By sorting out the whole process of securities issuance of the listed company, analyzing whether it is a kind of manipulation behavior, whether it has an impact on securities trading volume and trading price, and whether there is a causal relationship between manipulation behavior and market fluctuations, to put forward defense opinions, and file the application to the procuratorate for refusal of arrest and guarantor pending trial

  • Provided the criminal defense service for a case of perfidy and damage to a listed company by the chairman of the listed company. By sorting out the working scope of the senior manager involved in the case, to put forward the defense opinions on the basis of investigating and judging whether such chairman violated the duty of loyalty and took advantage of the job convenience 

  • Provided the criminal defense service for a case of illegal disclosure and non-disclosure of important information by a listed company. By judging the category of the important information and the disclosure obligation, in combination with the actual conditions disclosed by the listed company, to put forward the defense opinions

  • Provided the criminal defense service for a case of false VAT special invoice issued by a large petrochemical enterprise

  • Provided the criminal defense service for Li X serving as a senior manager of a leading risk investment institution  

  • Provided the legal service of criminal defense for a business manager of a a state-owned asset management company, who is suspected of fraud

  • Provided the criminal defense service for Zhang X serving as a senior manager of a foreign-funded enterprise, who is suspected of duty encroachment, fraudulent purchase of foreign exchange, and issuance of false invoice 

  • Provided the criminal defense service for Guan X serving as the former Party Committee member and deputy director of a provincial rural credit cooperative association, who is involved in the crimes of bribery, abuse of power, and dereliction of duty

  • Provided the criminal defense service for He X serving as the director of Natural Resources Administration of a prefecture-level city, who is involved in the crime of bribery  

  • Provided the criminal appeal service for Yin X serving as the secretary of the Party Group and the director of the Audit Office of a province, who is involved in the crimes of bribery and embezzlement of public fund 

  • Provided the criminal defense service for Niu X serving as an engineer of a leading Internet company, who is suspected of commercial secrete encroachment, and obtain a guarantor pending trial successfully  

  • Provided the criminal defense service for an employee of a medical laboratory company, who is suspected of hindering the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, and obtain a guarantor pending trial successfully

  • Provided the criminal defense service for Wang X of a well-known investment company, who is involved in the crime of acceptance of bribes by national government functionary

  • Provided the criminal defense service for Ju X, who is suspected of rape crime, and obtain a guarantor pending trial at the investigation stage 

  • Provided the criminal defense service for Wang X, who is involved in rape crime 


Criminal Litigation 

  • Handled the case successfully that Liu X, serving as the Secretary of the Party Committee of a province, accepted bribes 

  • Handled the case successfully that Liu XX, serving as the Secretary of the Party Group of National Education Examinations Authority, accepted bribes  

  • Handled the case successfully that Wen X, serving as a member of the Party Standing Committee of a District of Beijing, accepted bribes 

  • Handled the case successfully that Zhang XX, serving as the General Manager of Beijing Yunxingyu Traffic Technology Ltd, embezzled money and engaged in corrupt practices 

  • Handled the case successfully that Ren XX, serving as the Director of a Land Reserve Center of Beijing Municipal Commission of Planning and Natural Resources, accepted bribes  

  • Handled the case successfully that Zhang XX, known as the most famous disguiser director, defrauded the amount of RMB 16.00 million Yuan 

  • Handled the case successfully that Feng X defrauded the amount of RMB 9.00 million Yuan by contract  

  • Supervised and handled the case successfully that Bai XX, serving as the Secretary of the Party Committee of a province, took bribes and possessed a huge sum of assets from unidentified sources


Criminal Reporting 

  • Provided the criminal reporting service for the case of loan fraud from a national policy bank involving the amount of billions of RMB yuan, which has been accepted

  • Provided the criminal investigation and reporting service for the case that an employee in the sports department of a leading Internet enterprise accepted bribes and took advantage of his position Provided publicity and promotion help for foreign gambling websites and companies by publishing advertorials, which has been filed successfully  

  • Provided the criminal reporting service for a leading Internet enterprise for the duty encroachment case that its employee colluded with the suppliers to raise contract price, which has been field successfully  

  • Provided the criminal reporting service for the acts taken by an employee at the middle information ground of a leading Internet enterprise to accept bribes, issue the label of rights and interests to short video operators, and upgrade the level of rights and interests of short video operators, and this case has been filed successfully  

  • To become the permanent legal counsel of a leading Internet enterprise for the business of anti-fraud investigation and criminal reporting 

  • Provided the criminal reporting service for the case that a domestic NET trading platform and its shareholders were extorted, which has been filed successfully  

  • Provided the criminal reporting and criminal consulting services for an employee of a domestic private enterprise, who is suspected of loan fraud and duty encroachment

  • Provided the criminal reporting assessment and other legal services for the case that Liu XX’s husband is suspected of the crime of bigamy, the crime of forging, altering, trading identity documents, and the crime of using false identity document. 

Honors and Awards

Special Recommendation List for 2021 LEGALBAND China Lawyers: Top 15

Certificate of Expert in Tencent

Excellent Management Cadre in Tencent

Outstanding Performance Winner in Tencent

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    Chinese Legal Profession Qualification Certificate, 2006

  • Education

    Master of Laws, University of International Business and Economics (UIBE)
    Bachelor of Laws, China University of Political Science and Law

  • Professional Experience

    Equity Partner, Non-equity Partner, Counsel, Zhong Lun Law Firm, 2019 to present
    Director of anti-fraud investigation, Tencent Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., 2016-2019

  • Languages

    Chinese
    English