Mr. Liu Ping is a partner at Guantao Law Firm in Shenzhen Office, mainly engaged in criminal defense and criminal compliance.
Mr. Liu has focused on criminal defense since commencing legal practice. He has extensive practical criminal defense experiences in handling cases of occupational crimes, economic crimes, financial securities crimes, internet crimes, drug crimes, and other common criminal cases, as well as criminal compliance for listed companies, corporate anti-bribery, anti-corruption compliance systems, and legal services for financial technology criminal compliance.
Mr. Liu Ping is a lawyer with a strong sense of criminal defense. He is not only courageous and willing to stand up for the weak, brave in pursuing fairness and justice, but also outstanding in handling cases, with creative thinking, adept at using interdisciplinary knowledge to solve legal puzzles. With a deep understanding of criminal law, excellent courtroom defense skills, lawyer visits with humanistic care, comprehensive review of case files, rigorous evidence analysis, and powerful defense arguments, he has won unanimous recognition from public security, prosecution, and judicial authorities. With the goal of maximizing the interests of the parties, adhering to the principles of non-transactional communication, and focusing on evidence analysis, he meticulously analyzes cases layer by layer, comprehensively, and deeply analyzes cases, seeks breakthroughs in cases, clarifies case facts, and accurately applies the law. In the field of criminal defense, he has established his own professional defense style, known for his professionalism and diligence.
Mr. Liu Ping has handled many significant cases with good defense results, such as the exoneration of the Fujian Miao Xinhua intentional homicide and dismemberment case (rated by the media as one of the top ten innocent cases of the year), the Tianjin Liu Chunshu appeal case resulting in acquittal on all three charges (exoneration), the retrial of the Shanwei Huang Ping case involving a black society organization, the Shenzhen Guangming landslide case, the Chongqing deputy bureau-level official corruption case, the successful exclusion of illegal evidence and ultimate acquittal in the bribery case of the chairman of a real estate developer in Jiangmen City, the bribery and illegal transfer of land use rights case of the chairman of a real estate company in Sanya City involving a significant amount, and many other influential major cases. He has also achieved good defense results in cases involving the bribery of the director of a public security bureau in Jiangxi Province, helping criminals evade punishment, and the illegal transfer of land use rights.
Mr. Liu Ping has been honored with the Stellar Accolade of LegalOne in 2023, ranked by LegalBand as the Top 15 recommended lawyer for Business Crime and Criminal Compliance in China in 2022, one of the Top Ten Figures Most Followed by the Legal Industry in China in 2017 awarded by the Ministry of Justice, the Outstanding Achievement Award in Criminal Defense in 2017, and one of the Top Ten Classic Innocent Defense Cases in 2017 by the Case Law Research Association of the China Law Society and the Criminal Defense Research Center of China University of Political Science and Law, as well as one of the Top Ten Effective Defense Cases of the Year 2019 by Legal Bridge.
In cases of occupational crimes such as bribery, corruption, abuse of power, and dereliction of duty, he communicates and defends for the defendants with investigating and prosecuting authorities, retrieves evidence materials that prove innocence or mitigate guilt, negotiates with the prosecution on sentencing for the defendants, and provides advice and defense work on whether to plead guilty or not guilty. He appears in court to defend the defendants against charges of innocence or leniency. By combining procedural defense such as illegal evidence exclusion and investigation and substantive defense, he maximizes the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of the parties.
In economic crime cases, he provides legal services for accusing and protecting property rights for the parties involved. He provides legal solutions to prevent company management and shareholders from embezzling or illegally occupying corporate property. He also provides defense for crimes such as fraud, bribery, and corruption, involving company employees and shareholders. He provides legal advice and solutions for evidence collection and defense for accused persons involved in fraud, bribery, and corruption.
In financial securities crime cases, he provides legal advice and defense services for persons accused of fraud, bribery, and corruption in the securities industry, and provides legal solutions to prevent the crime of fraud, bribery, and corruption in the securities industry. He also provides legal advice and defense for accused persons involved in fraud, bribery, and corruption in the securities industry.
Mr. Liu Ping provides crisis response legal measures and solutions for illegal and criminal activities such as market manipulation, insider trading, financial fraud, market value management, "rat trading," fraudulent issuance, and false information disclosure involving listed companies, directors, supervisors, and senior management of securities companies. He also offers investigation response and criminal defense services for illegal off-market margin trading, quantitative trading, using undisclosed information for trading, spreading false information, "cap-snatching" trading, and market manipulation through deceptive trading practices in the secondary market. He coordinates and communicates with the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) and stock exchanges on behalf of listed companies regarding illegal and irregular behaviors, and represents them in CSRC hearings, analyzing the boundary between securities violations and crimes.
In cases involving commodity trading platforms and futures trading platforms accused of fraud and illegal operations, Mr. Liu Ping is a pioneer, accumulating a wealth of successful cases. He provides numerous typical cases for the court to handle illegal operation of futures cases. He handled Shenzhen's first blockchain digital currency-related criminal case. He designs criminal compliance laws for blockchain virtual digital currency companies, including issuing coins, ICOs, fundraising, and digital currency operations. He also provides criminal defense services for virtual digital currency companies involved in crimes such as fraud, illegal operation, fundraising fraud, money laundering, and organizing and leading pyramid selling activities.
Mr. Liu Ping was involved in the founding of an internet company and has a profound understanding of the development and operation of the internet industry. In internet crime cases, he provides legal services for data security protection strategies, data compliance, protection of trade secrets, embezzlement complaints, corporate criminal compliance, and defense for company shareholders, directors, and senior management involved in criminal cases. He provides defense for cases involving senior executives suspected of illegal intrusion into computer information systems, illegal acquisition of computer information system data, illegal control of computer information systems, and providing programs and tools for intrusion, illegal control of computer information systems, aiding information network crime activities, illegal acquisition of network information data, web crawling, buying and selling of citizens' personal information data, and illegal collection of information data, etc.
Mr. Liu Ping has handled numerous cases involving intellectual property rights infringement, ranging from traditional fields such as tobacco, alcohol, food, clothing, cosmetics, to digital reading, online education, financial technology, and other fields involving infringement of copyright, counterfeiting registered trademarks, and selling goods with counterfeit registered trademarks. These cases also include crimes related to electronic product trademarks, digital copyright, and infringement of trade secrets, as well as cases of infringement of intellectual property rights involving the interaction of "e-commerce platforms," "online social platforms," and "cloud storage platforms." He also handles cases involving original server storage, P2P download sharing, infringement crimes using link theft, web disks, and mobile aggregation apps, accurately distinguishing complex technical determinations and legal applications.
In the defense of drug crime cases, Mr. Liu Ping is one of the earliest lawyers in China to study refined defense strategies for drug crime. He is one of the earliest lawyers to detail the legal norms, classic cases, and common defense focus issues of drug crime defense. Through detailed evidence analysis, detailed cross-examination, and effective defense strategies, he provides innocent and mitigated defenses for defendants in drug crime cases. In major drug-related criminal cases, he provides defense for defendants to avoid the death penalty and defends in the Supreme People's Court's death penalty review procedure. He has accumulated a wealth of successful cases in handling drug crime cases.
In cases involving crimes related to organized crime and gang-related crimes, Mr. Liu Ping provides courageous and effective defense, offering truly effective defense for the parties involved and is one of the few lawyers who dares to defend in court. He maintains positive communication with public security organs, procuratorates, and courts, maximizing the most effective results for the parties involved. He has been praised by lawyers, judges, and prosecutors many times, playing a very good exemplary role for young lawyers.
In the field of criminal compliance, he provides legal services for companies involved in criminal offenses, offering compliance and non-prosecution services, building criminal compliance systems, coordinating with procuratorates on criminal compliance reform processes and supervision procedures, providing a full range of legal supervision designs for anti-bribery, anti-fraud, and anti-infringement for companies, building and operating reporting platforms for companies, conducting internal interviews and interviews with business partners, investigating and collecting evidence for company employees involved in criminal offenses, and providing defense and compliance reform plans for cases involving offenses such as illegal intrusion into computer information systems, illegal acquisition of computer information system data, and illegal control of computer information systems. He also provides strategies for crisis response to criminal offenses for actual controllers, directors, supervisors, and senior executives of listed companies, and provides special criminal compliance services for listed companies to ensure smooth IPOs and provide criminal compliance legal services before listing.
Education background:
Tsinghua Univdersity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong;
LL. M (Economic Law), Master of Business Administration in Finance (FMBA)
Areas of specialization:
Criminal Defense, Criminal Compliance, Securities litigation
Professional Experience:
Guantao Law Firm, Partner
Shangquan Law Firm, senior associate
Awards (partial):
LegalOne Stellar Accolade in 2023;
Top 15 recommended lawyer for Business Crime and Criminal Compliance in China in 2022 by LegalBand;
Top Ten Innocent Defense Cases of the Year 2022 by Legal Bridge;
Top Ten Figures Most Followed by the Legal Industry in China in 2017 by the Ministry of Justice;
Outstanding Achievement Award in Criminal Defense in 2017 by the Case Law Research Association of the China Law Society and the Criminal Defense Research Center of China University of Political Science and Law;
Top Ten Classic Innocent Defense Cases in 2017 by the Case Law Research Association of the China Law Society and the Criminal Defense Research Center of China University of Political Science and Law
Top Ten Effective Defense Cases of the Year 2019 by Legal Bridge;
Top Ten Innocent Defense Cases of the Year 2022 by Legal Bridge.
Memberships:
Member of the Criminal Defense Professional Committee of Guangdong Province
Member of the Professional Committee for Defense of Occupational Crimes in Shenzhen
Representative Cases:
Appeals of Innocence Cases:
Miao Xinhua's intentional murder and dismemberment wrongful case in Fujian was overturned. Miao Deshu, the lawyer representing the appeal (case overturned).
Tianjin's Liu Chunshu appealed all three charges and was acquitted (case overturned).
Duty Crime Cases:
A deputy department-level official in Chongqing was involved in crimes such as corruption, bribery, and abuse of power.
A district committee secretary in Shenzhen was involved in bribery and abuse of power series of cases (deputy department-level).
A deputy director in Shenzhen was involved in a bribery case.
The director of a public security bureau in Jiangxi was involved in bribery, helping criminals evade punishment, and illegally transferring and selling land use rights.
The chairman of a real estate development company in Jiangmen was involved in bribery and tax evasion cases involving 12 million yuan (illegal evidence excluded, acquitted and released).
The chairman of a real estate company in Sanya, Hainan was involved in bribery and illegal transfer and sale of land use rights cases involving about 200 million yuan.
The chairman of a real estate company in Shenzhen was involved in bribery of a district committee secretary.
A senior executive at Huawei was involved in bribery.
The landslide case in Guangming, Shenzhen (shareholder Wang was acquitted).
Tianjin entrepreneur Liu Chunshu's tax evasion and false accusation case was acquitted after 19 years of appeal.
Gang Crime Cases:
Miao Xinhua's intentional murder and dismemberment wrongful case in Fujian was overturned. Miao Deshu, the lawyer representing the appeal (case overturned).
Huang Ping's case of a gang with a criminal nature in Shanwei, defense lawyer in the second trial.
A major gang-related loan-sharking case involving Hong Zhi, a company in Nanjing (central supervision).
A major gang with a criminal nature in Shenzhen.
A gang with a criminal nature involving a small loan company in Chongqing.
A gang with a criminal nature involving car loans and loan sharking in Hengyang, Hunan.
A gang with a criminal nature involving real estate loans and loan sharking in Shenzhen.
A gang with a criminal nature involving a loan company in Hefei, Anhui.
A case of bribery involving a high-ranking executive at Huawei who was not a state employee.
The major landslide case in Guangming, Shenzhen (shareholder Wang was acquitted).
The major P2P loan-sharking case in Nanjing, Jiangsu involving Hong Zhi Company under central supervision, involving 500 million yuan.
A fraud case involving the website InvestmentWhere involving 50 billion yuan.
A case of illegal absorption of public deposits involving 400 billion yuan by Hebao Finance in Shenzhen.
A case of non-absorption involving 50 billion yuan by Xuanhong Capital Management Co., Ltd. in Shenzhen.
A case of illegal absorption of public deposits involving 120 billion yuan by Meili Financial Wuhan Company.
A case of illegal absorption of public deposits involving 30 billion yuan by a Hong Kong resident Chen of a Shenzhen-based gold trading company.
A case of illegal absorption of public deposits involving 2 billion yuan by Ji of a grain company in Shenzhen.
A major P2P loan-sharking case involving 500 million yuan by a company in Hengyang, Hunan.
A case of fraudulent fundraising involving 11 billion yuan by a real estate financing company in Shenzhen, successfully cracking down on the fraud.
A case of illegal absorption of public deposits involving 500 million yuan by a car loan company in Futian District, Shenzhen.
A case of fraud involving 1 billion yuan by executives of a P2P platform in Bao'an District, Shenzhen (acquitted).
A case of a blockchain virtual cat scam involving 100 million yuan in Luohu District, Shenzhen, successfully cracking down on the fraud.
A case of illegal futures fraud involving 500 million yuan by the chairman of Shengli Investment Management Co., Ltd. in Shenzhen, successfully cracking down on the fraud.
A case of illegal futures involving 2 billion yuan by Cui, chairman of an investment company in Fuzhou, Fujian Province.
A case of fraud involving 10 billion yuan by one of the nine agents of the Guangdong WJSE case, successfully cracking down on the fraud.
A case of fraud involving 2 billion yuan by the Nantong Southern WJSE case in Jiangsu Province.
A case of fraud involving 2 billion yuan by Lan, chairman of Zhongjin Wulian Tea Spot Trading Platform in Guizhou Province.
A case of fraud involving the chairman of Shanghai Newcastle Financial Group in a futures trading platform scam, successfully cracking down on the fraud.
A case of fraudulent overseas futures trading organized by Luo in Tonghua City, Jilin Province, successfully cracking down on the fraud.
A case of fraud involving a futures trading platform in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, successfully cracking down on the fraud.
A case of illegally setting up a Hang Seng Index trading platform involving 30 million yuan by Weng in Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province.
A case of financial fraud involving a Hang Seng Index futures trading scam by Nie in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, successfully cracking down on the fraud.
A case of using the name of Hong Kong Dingzhan as a company in Shenzhen to illegally act as an agent for Hong Kong gold futures trading, successfully cracking down on the fraud.
A case of using Xinguanjia as an agent for Hong Kong Minzhong and Yuandai futures trading by Lin in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, involving 120 million yuan, successfully cracking down on the fraud.
A case of fraud involving a fake futures trading platform by Lin in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, successfully cracking down on the fraud.
A case of illegal overseas futures investment fraud by Wu in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, successfully cracking down on the fraud.
A case of illegal futures investment fraud involving 250 million yuan by Wu in Xinyang, Henan Province, successfully cracking down on the fraud.
A case of illegal futures investment fraud involving 250 million yuan by Wu in Xinyang, Henan Province, successfully cracking down on the fraud.
A case of fraudulent fundraising involving 4.5 billion yuan by Luo in Haikou, Hainan Province.
Economic Crime Cases:
Indian citizen Manish's case of harboring criminals was acquitted (acquitted).
A certain real estate company's destruction of a computer information system crime in Shenzhen.
The chairman of a textile factory in Xinjiang forged company seals involving 200 million yuan.
A company in Linyi, Shandong was suspected of defrauding export tax refunds involving about 120 million yuan.
A case of issuing false VAT invoices in Shenzhen involving 500 million yuan.
Li, the operator of an internet company in Jiangmen, Guangdong, was involved in a case of sexual deception involving 670 million yuan.
The lawyer in charge of the 419 major online fraud case in Hongshan District, Wuhan, Hubei Province, involving 10 billion yuan.
Guangdong Public Security Department's "Anwang No. 6" specialized case of fraud involving 600 million yuan.
Lawyer in charge of Huang's online fraud case in Haikou, Hainan Province.
The "Guangming Fa" Taobao operation case involving 2.4 billion yuan.
A high-tech company preparing for IPO in Shenzhen involved in smuggling ordinary goods.
Li in Zhuhai, Guangdong was involved in smuggling ordinary goods involving 1 billion yuan.
Zhang in Shenzhen was involved in smuggling ordinary goods involving 1 billion yuan.
Hunan Zhang was involved in a case of "fake base stations" damaging public telecommunications facilities.
In Shenzhen, a Vietnamese citizen was part of a theft ring.
Yuan from Chongqing was involved in smuggling and transporting 30 imitation guns from Hong Kong.
Wu's company in Shenzhen was involved in aiding information network crime.
Zhang's company in Shenzhen was involved in embezzlement.
The "Ping An Huayangka" case in Shenzhen involved empty cards.
A high-ranking executive of a technology company in Shenzhen was involved in commercial bribery.
A medical device company in Shenzhen was involved in commercial bribery.
A gaming company in Shenzhen was involved in embezzlement.
A company in Shenzhen was involved in copyright infringement.
A printing company in Shenzhen was involved in counterfeiting registered trademarks.
A company in Beijing involved in patriotic education was suspected of fundraising fraud.
Drug-related Crime Cases:
Luo, from Heilongjiang Province, was suspected of trafficking over 500 grams of methamphetamine (sentenced to 2.5 years).
Zhang, a Hong Kong resident, was involved in the sale of 11 kilograms of heroin.
Cao, from Hainan Province, was involved in the sale and transportation of 1 kilogram of methamphetamine.
Cao, from Hubei Province, was involved in drug trafficking and robbery. The robbery charge was dropped in the second trial.
Weng, from Henan Province, was involved in drug trafficking, with 5 kilograms of drugs seized.
Li, from Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province, was involved in drug trafficking, with 5 kilograms of drugs involved in the case.
In a drug trafficking case in Shenzhen, the defendant was found not guilty after illegal evidence and inducement were excluded.
Compliance Programs:
Criminal compliance project of a listed company in Shenzhen.
Tax compliance project of a financial technology company in Shenzhen.
Export control compliance project of a Hong Kong-listed company in Shenzhen.
Data compliance project of a communication company in Shenzhen.
Other criminal compliance projects that cannot be disclosed.