On January 13, 2019, at the beginning of the new year, the “ZhongYin Summit Forum on Financial Criminal Legal Risk Prevention” sponsored by Zhongyin Law Firm was solemnly held in Beijing.

More than 500 audiences listen carefully to the experts’ speeches

ZhongYin has a top-notch service team and fruitful achievements in the area of finance and securities, and has extensive influence in the industry. It has achieved outstanding performance in criminal practice, especially in economic crimes, duty crimes, corruption and bribery crimes, etc., has handled a large number of cases with significant social influence, and has won high praise from peers, clients and all social circles for its exquisite practice skills, high conscientiousness and dedication, and good effects of defense. The forum was held in the context of increasingly strict financial regulation and the gradually growing occurrence frequency of illegal and criminal activities in finance and securities in the country, which reflect that ZhongYin dares to assume responsibilities and duties as a large comprehensive law firm.

Lin Wei: Identification of Subjective Intention in Financial Crime

Bai Jianjun: Policy Guidance of and Criminal Defense under Financial Criminal Law

Zhang Zhong: Proof of Subjective Fault in Illegal Fund-Raising

Lin Haiquan: Criminal-Civil Mixed Cases in Finance Sector

Tao Wei: Legal Application in Illegal Fund-Raising Cases

Yu Chunye: Focus on Securities Crime Cases to Prevent Financial Criminal Risks

Wang Yu: Violations of Laws and Regulations and Crimes in Finance Sector

The forum attracted more than 500 participants including guests from the academic world, the judicial practice world, regulators, business circles and other communities, and attorneys from ZhongYin's head and branch offices. Professor Lin Wei, Vice President of University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Professor Bai Jianjun, Director of Institute of Positive Law and Deputy Director of Financial Law Research Center of Peking University, Professor Zhang Zhong, Deputy Dean of Institute of Evidence Science of China University of Political Science and Law, and Post-doctor Lin Haiquan, researcher of Research Center of Civil and Commercial Jurisprudence of Renmin University of China, and other experts at the forum conducted in-depth discussion on issues of identification of subjective intention in financial crime, policy guidance of financial criminal law, proof of subjective fault in illegal fund-raising, and criminal-civil mixed case in finance sector, providing an informative and professional guidance on attorneys’ defense. Tribunal President Tao Wei from Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court and Division Chief Yu Chunye from Branch 2 of Beijing Municipal People's Procuratorate analyzed and summarized the rules of adjudication on some controversial issues from the perspective of judicial practice and through examples of trying illegal fund-raising cases and investigating major securities cases. At this session, Wang Yu, General Manager of Risk Management Department of Industrial Bank (Beijing), also shared his views on difficulties in risk control by financial institutions.

Zhou Junli hosts this forum

Suo Chanjie announces that the “ZhongYin Global Criminal Law Academic Committee” and “ZhongYin Criminal Law Practice Committee” are formally established.

The forum was hosted by Zhou Junli, a management committee member and a senior partner of ZhongYin. Suo Chanjie, a management committee member, a senior partner and the head of criminal law practice department of ZhongYin, delivered a speech for the forum and announced that the “ZhongYin Global Criminal Law Academic Committee” and “ZhongYin Criminal Law Practice Committee” were formally established. The ZhongYin Global Criminal Law Academic Committee will organize jurists in relevant areas, judicial experts in public security organs, procuratorial organs and people's courts, attorneys and other experts in the practice world to discuss cutting-edge and difficult legal issues and give advices and suggestions on the legal system construction in China. ZhongYin Criminal Law Practice Committee will conduct research and provide guidance on major and complicated criminal cases across the country. The forum gathered many guests, including experts, scholars and practitioners, who prepared a feast in relation to financial criminal law to the audiences. In warm atmosphere, with informative content, the forum was successfully completed!

Group photo of some participating attorneys from the head and branch offices of ZhongYin

The financial criminal law practice team of ZhongYin will take this opportunity to further consolidate its professional foundation, deeply engage in financial model innovation and research on boundary of criminal law regulation, and better identify criminal legal risks for clients in the financial sector, thus to provide them with all-round and highest-quality legal services.