Zhao Yunheng

ZHAOYUNHENG

Honorary Director of Beijing Xinglai Law Firm

Doctor of Law from Peking University. Member of the Board of Directors at the China Society of Criminal Procedure Law, Special Appointed Supervisor for Lawyers at National Detention Centers under the Ministry of Public Security, Part-time Master’s Supervisor at Peking University School of Law, Vice President of the Peking University Financial Alumni Association, Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Legal Master’s Program, China University of Political Science and Law, and External Mentor for Graduate Students at Beijing Foreign Studies University School of Law. Also serves as a Committee Member of the Criminal Law Division of the All China Lawyers Association, Deputy Director of the 10th All China Lawyers Association Committee on Corporate Compliance Law, Legal Expert with the Beijing Municipal Commission of Planning and Natural Resources, and Member of the Corporate Compliance Working Committee at the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. Previously held the positions of Director of the Criminal Department at Dacheng Law Offices and National Chairman of Dacheng’s Criminal Law Committee.

Business Areas

My primary areas of practice are criminal litigation and corporate compliance. I have handled numerous high-profile criminal cases across the country, with particular expertise in offenses involving official misconduct (such as bribery, embezzlement, misappropriation of public funds, and dereliction of duty) as well as economic crimes (including illegal business activities, contract fraud, and financial crimes). I also have extensive experience with cases involving organized crime groups posing a mafia-like threat.

Representative cases include:

Beijing Jieshi Zhongkun Railway Technology Co., Ltd. case of trade secret infringement (second-instance verdict: not guilty);

Shandong Dezhou entrepreneur Liu Moumou involved in a case of alleged organized crime (first-instance verdict finds no evidence of organized crime);

The insider trading case involving the General Manager of Beijing Honggao Construction Company (where a first-instance sentence originally handed down for individual criminal activity of more than five years was changed to a suspended sentence under the charge of corporate crime).

Taiwanese nationals Zhang and Wu implicated in insider trading case involving Huace Film & TV Company (no arrest made);

The case of Xu, Chairman of Wenfeng Group and Wenfeng Shares, accused of manipulating the securities market (suspended sentence);

The actual controller of Xiong'an New Dynamics, Mao Moumou, is suspected of illegally disclosing material information;

A female film star is involved in a tax evasion and accounting document destruction case (no arrest made);

Case of a Beijing police station chief accused of abusing official authority (prosecution withdrawn);

The Heishui County case involving Yin from Golmud, Qinghai Province (where the organization's leader did not have all personal assets confiscated), and others.

In 2021, Attorney Zhao Yunheng spearheaded the establishment of the Criminal Compliance Expert Group under the Beijing Lawyers Association's Think Tank, and subsequently founded the Xinglai Corporate Compliance Legal Service Center. The center’s core practice areas include environmental compliance, financial compliance, data compliance, cybersecurity, personal information protection, as well as anti-bribery and anti-monopoly initiatives. All team members hold degrees from top-tier domestic law schools such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, and the University of Hong Kong, boasting both a strong theoretical foundation and extensive hands-on experience in their respective fields.

Notable cases include: a case involving the board secretary of a company in Guangdong Province, who is suspected of insider trading and has been selected as one of the third batch of typical compliance cases for enterprises released by the Supreme People's Procuratorate.