To better provide refined legal services, the CELG Criminal Defense Specialized Committee consists of the Major Criminal Offense Legal Department, Commercial Crime Legal Department, Financial Crime Legal Department, Duty-related Crime Legal Department, International Criminal Legal Department, Intellectual Property Criminal Legal Department, Tax-related Crime Legal Department, and Criminal-Civil Crossover Legal Department.

Led by Lawyer Chen Youxi, the Criminal Defense Specialized Committee has a criminal defense lawyer team that ranks in China’s leading position in professional competence. In recent years, it has handled a large number of high-profile cases with nationwide influence. These include cases of significant influence such as the retrial of Gu Chujun, the Xu Ronghua equity dispute case (two of the three major property rights cases retried by the Supreme Court), the Chongqing Li Zhuang case (one of the top ten influential cases in China in 2009), the Wu Shangli huge illegal fund-raising case of Anhui Xingbang Company (an excellent case in Zhejiang Province), the Jiangxi “master” Wang Lin case, the murder case of Lei in Beijing; economic crime cases involving entrepreneurs such as Anbang Insurance Group, Nanjing Central Emporium (Group) Stocks Co., Ltd., Chongqing Junfeng Group, Hengfeng Bank, Guangxi Zhongmei Tianyuan Group, and Liuzhou Zhengling Group; duty-related crime cases involving officials such as the former secretary of the Shenzhen Political and Legal Committee, the former president of the Dalian Intermediate People’s Court, the former deputy secretary of the Jiangmen Municipal Party Committee in Guangdong, and the former deputy secretary of the Yingde Municipal Party Committee.

The Criminal Defense Specialized Committee has extensive defense experience in various types of crimes in enterprise operations, crimes committed by entrepreneurs and company executives, and duty-related crimes committed by officials. It has defended a large number of leading cadres, entrepreneurs and company executives, and its viewpoints have been widely adopted by the courts, thereby maximizing the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of the parties involved. At the same time, it has conducted in-depth research in the field of criminal risk prevention, developed targeted legal service products for criminal risk prevention, and provided protection for many listed companies, well-known enterprises and their executives.

The Criminal Defense Specialized Committee strengthens internal business training and increases external exchanges and learning to enhance the ability of effective defense and quality service. In addition, CELG criminal lawyers are also actively involved in public welfare, handling more than 100 legal aid criminal cases each year. CELG lawyers leverage their profound professional competence and diligent and conscientious work attitude in case handling, fully exerting the role of criminal lawyers in the legal profession community. They have made their due contributions to safeguarding human rights and maintaining fairness and justice, earning recognition from the parties involved and respect from judicial authorities.

Legal services provided by CELG in this field:

• Serving as defenders for criminal suspects (defendants)

• Serving as agents for criminal complaint cases

• Serving as agents ad litem for parties in private prosecution cases

• Serving as agents ad litem for parties in incidental civil litigation cases

• Serving as agents ad litem for victims in public prosecution cases

• Serving as criminal legal consultants for individuals, companies or other organizations

• Providing special legal services for enterprises in criminal matters, training and consultation on criminal risk prevention and duty-related crime prevention