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  • Yan GE

    Equity Partner / Beijing

  • Tel +86-10-5957-2288

    Email geyan@zhonglun.com

  • Practices

    Corporate & Commercial Crime, Compliance & Investigation, IP Licensing & Enforcement

CV

Yan GE

Tapping into her more than thirteen years of experience in prosecuting cases, Ms. Yan Ge excels at defending financial securities, job-related crimes, smuggling and tax-related cases. She has acted for the defendant in the first case of manipulating securities market in Anhui Province and provided representation to many high-ranking officials and corporate executives in job-related crimes. In addition, she has provided legal solutions for many financial institutions, enterprises, and individuals in criminal-civil hybrid disputes, and achieved remarkable results.
Ms. Ge has been at the forefront of anti-corruption and IP-related compliance. Her years of practice in anti-fraud investigation and criminal compliance for leading Chinese internet enterprises has honed her understanding of businesses’ needs, and such astute commercial acumen enables her to devise pragmatic compliance systems that enhance profitability of the clients while ensuring their regulatory compliance. She has now counseled many large state-owned and private-sector enterprises on pre-compliance and case-related compliance.

Representative Matters

Corporate Compliance (as partner) 

  • Provided leading internet companies with retainer-based legal consulting for anti-fraud investigation, covering anti-fraud, anti-commercial bribery, and other criminal compliance matters, as well as criminal investigation, criminal reporting, and criminal litigation agent ad litem

  • Advised a number of large online chess and card game companies on criminal compliance, with services covering establishment of criminal compliance system case database, core compliance system and compliance rules, establishment of information filing system, and compliance training for senior managers and employees

  • Provided criminal compliance legal services to a large online music platform in China

  • Provided legal services for criminal product compliance to an online audio live broadcasting platform in China, with services covering criminal legal risk analysis and rectification suggestions

  • Provided legal services for anti-commercial bribery/FCPA criminal compliance to a large e-commerce platform in China

  • Provided criminal compliance legal services to leading short-video live broadcasting companies in China, with services covering assessment of criminal risks and establishment of red line systems

  • Provided retainer-based legal compliance counsel to leading internet enterprises in China, including launching a number of compliance projects as project leader, covering e-commerce, cultural recreation, data, and minors protection, as well as day-to-day compliance services

  • Provided criminal compliance legal services to a software technology development company, including full analysis of the possible compliance risks in the client's work process and workflows, compliance advice, and establishment of a complete criminal compliance system, all in light of the involvement of the client's employees in criminal activities

  • Provided anti-commercial bribery compliance services to a leading dairy group in China, including formulation of regulations and guidebooks on anti-commercial bribery compliance management and assistance in the client's compliance training and publicity

  • Assisted a local financial regulatory authority in Beijing to conduct financial inspection on financial institutions and issued relevant professional legal inspection reports

  • Provided criminal compliance legal services to a state-owned holding company

  • Provided criminal compliance legal services to a Global 500 international technical service company, including assessment of the client's criminal risk in its existing business in accordance with regulatory requirements and advice for rectification

  • Provided criminal compliance legal services to an investment consulting company, including anticipatory identification of the possible criminal compliance risks in face of an emergency, compliance training of the executives of the client, and response to the investigation conducted by the law enforcement agencies

  • Provided a parent fund company with customized criminal compliance legal services specifically designed for the fund industry

  • Provided a listed biotechnology company with all-round criminal legal risk assessment services by sorting out the business lines of the client and conducting onsite interviews and investigations


Corporate Compliance (as Director of Anti-fraud Investigation of Tencent) 

  • Managed criminal reporting, judicial follow-up, and internal processing and follow-up of the key cases occurring within Tencent

  • Formed Tencent's anti-corruption and compliance team in Beijing, and took charge of management, training, reporting, and performance assessment of the compliance team

  • Formed Tencent's anti-fraud investigation team in Beijing and managed collection of evidence, allocation of cases, guidance on case investigation, assessment of members, and other work

  • Participated in revision and improvement of Tencent's compliance norms, such as "Sunshine Code of Conduct", "Procedures for Management of Suppliers", and "Procedures for Management of Contracts"

  • Managed the dissemination of compliance principles and materials to the entire staff of Tencent Group and prepared the compliance cultural products  

  • Managed the daily work skill training of Tencent Group's anti-fraud compliance team 

  • Managed the judicial cooperation and liaison between Tencent Group's anti-fraud compliance team and Chinese public security organs and other judicial authorities


Criminal Litigation (as partner) 

  • Provided criminal defense to a senior manager of a leading internet company who was suspected of non-government official bribery acceptance and contract fraud

  • Provided criminal defense services to a senior manager of a Chinese fashion company who was implicated in embezzlement of corporate funds and obtained a bail pending trial for the client

  • Provided the criminal defense to a senior manager of an investment company, who was implicated in corporate bribery

  • Provided the criminal defense in the first securities market manipulation case in Anhui Province, where we put forward defense opinions based on our analysis of the entire process of securities issuance of the client, with focus on whether any of the client’s actions constituted manipulation behavior, whether such actions had an impact on securities trading volumes and trading prices, and whether there is a causal relationship between its behavior and market fluctuations, and also filed the application to the procuratorate for refusal of arrest and bail pending trial

  • Provided criminal defense to the chairman of a listed company who was accused of deceit and damage to the listed company and put forward a defense opinions on the basis of delineating the client's remit and investigating whether the client violated his fiduciary duty and abuses his position

  • Provided criminal defense in a case involving illegal disclosure and non-disclosure of important information by a listed company and put forward a defense opinion that categorized important information and outlined the disclosure obligation for different categories, which was compared to disclosure made by the listed company

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

  • Provided criminal defense to a senior manager of a leading risk investment institution

  • Provided criminal defense to a business manager of a state-owned asset management company who was suspected of fraud

  • Provided criminal defense to a senior manager of a foreign-funded enterprise who was suspected of duty encroachment, fraudulent purchase of foreign exchange, and issuance of false invoices 

  • Provided criminal defense to a former Party Committee member and deputy director of a provincial rural credit cooperative association, who was accused of the crimes of bribery, abuse of power, and dereliction of duty

  • Provided criminal defense to the director of the natural resources administration of a prefecture-level city accused of bribery  

  • Provided criminal appeal to the secretary of the Party Committee and director of the audit office of a province who was involved in the crimes of bribery and embezzlement of public fund 

  • Provided criminal defense to an engineer of a leading internet company suspected of commercial secrete encroachment, and obtained a bail pending trial for the client

  • Provided criminal defense to an employee of a medical laboratory company who was suspected of hindering the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and obtain a bail pending trial for the client

  • Provided criminal defense to an employee of a well-known investment company who was involved in the crime of acceptance of bribes offered by a national government functionary Provided criminal defense to an individual who was suspected of rape and obtained for the client a bail pending trial at the investigation stage 

  • Provided criminal defense to an individual who was accused of rape


Criminal Litigation

  • Handled the case where the Secretary of the Party Committee of a province accepted bribes 

  • Handled the case where the Secretary of the Party Committee of National Education Examinations Authority accepted bribes  

  • Handled the case where a member of the Party Standing Committee of a district of Beijing accepted bribes 

  • Handled the case where the General Manager of Beijing Yunxingyu Traffic Technology Ltd. embezzled money and engaged in corrupt practices 

  • Handled the case where the director of a land reserve center of Beijing Municipal Commission of Planning and Natural Resources accepted bribes  

  • Handled the case where the individual dubbed as the most famous fake director defrauded a total amount of CNY 16 million 

  • Handled the case where an individual defrauded an amount of CNY 9 million through fraudulent contract dealings

  • Supervised and handled the case where the Secretary of the Party Committee of a province took bribes and possessed an unjustified huge wealth


Criminal Reporting 

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

  • Provided criminal investigation and reporting services in the case where an employee in the sports department of a leading internet enterprise accepted bribes and abused his position by publishing advertorials for promoting foreign gambling websites and companies, and filed the case successfully  

  • Provided criminal reporting services to a leading internet enterprise for the case where the client's employee committed duty encroachment by colluding with the suppliers to raise contract price, and successfully filed the case

  • Provided criminal reporting services to a leading internet company regarding an employee working at its information middle office accepting bribes in exchange of unauthorized granting of upgrading for short video operators, and got this case successfully filed  

  • Acted as retainer-based legal counsel for a leading Internet enterprise in connection of anti-fraud investigation and criminal reporting 

  • Provided criminal reporting services for a case where a domestic NET trading platform and its shareholders were extorted, which has been accepted by the competent authority

  • Provided criminal reporting and criminal consulting services to a domestic private enterprise  in connection of its employee who was suspected of loan fraud and duty encroachment

  • Provided criminal reporting assessment and other legal services for a case where a client’s husband was 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 Issue: China Top 15 Lawyers-Criminal Compliance, LEGALBAND, 2021

Certificate of Expert, Tencent

Excellent Management Cadre, Tencent

Outstanding Performance Winner, Tencent

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    PRC Bar, 2006

  • Education

    LL.M., University of International Business and Economics (UIBE)
    LL.B., China University of Political Science and Law

  • Professional Experience

    Equity partner, non-equity partner, and counsel, Zhong Lun Law Firm, 2019 to present
    Director of Anti-fraud Investigation, Tencent Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., 2016-2019

  • Languages

    Chinese
    English