Partner of Guantao Law Firm

Awarded for "Top Ten Most Concerned People in China's Lawyer Industry in 2017”,  “2017 Outstanding Achievement Award for Criminal Defense” ,“Top Ten Innocent Defense Classic Cases in 2017” and  “Top ten effective defense cases in 2019”.

Mr. Liu has dealt with many cases with significant influences, such as the redress of Fujian Miao Xinhua's intentional murder case (which was rated as one of the top ten innocent cases by the People's Supreme Court), the appealing case of Huang ping's crime of gangland organization, Guangming landslide case in Shenzhen, a case of duty crime committed by a deputy departmental official in Chongqing.

Education

FMBA, Tsinghua university & The Chinese University of Hong Kong

LL. M, Economic law

Areas of specialization

Criminal Defense, Criminal Compliance, Corporate Finance

Professional Experience

Guantao Law Firm, Partner

Shangquan Law Firm, senior associate

Honors and Rankings

Awarded for "Top Ten Most Concerned People in China's Lawyer Industry in 2017" by The Ministry of Justice

Awarded for “2017 Outstanding Achievement Award for Criminal Defense”

Awarded for “Top Ten Innocent Defense Classic Cases in 2017”

Awarded for “Top ten effective defense cases in 2019”

Memberships

Member of Shenzhen Criminal Procedure Professional Committee

Mr. Liu Ping is a Partner of Guantao Law Firm in Shenzhen Office. Mr. Liu graduated from Tsinghua University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong and has LL.M and FMBA degree. Mr. Liu specializes in criminal defense, criminal compliance and corporate finance, etc. Mr. Liu has accomplished outstanding achievements in both areas of criminal defense and securities law.

Introduction

Mr. Liu mainly deals with major cases with significant influences around the country. Mr. Liu has focused on criminal defense since commencing legal practice. He has extensive practical criminal defense experiences in embezzlement and bribery crimes, financial crimes, securities and futures crimes, internet crimes, drug crimes, ect. Mr. Liu also focus on criminal compliance, and specialized in anti-bribery and anti-fraud compliance program, and FinTech compliance legal services.

Mr. Liu is a defense lawyer with sentiment feelings. He is not only chivalrous and courageous, has the courage to plead for the weak, and has the courage to pursue fairness and justice, but also has outstanding abilities to handle cases. He has creative thinking, and is good at using multidisciplinary knowledge to solve legal difficulties. Mr. Liu has won unanimous recognition from public security authority, people's procuratorate and people's courts for his strong theoretical foundation of criminal law, excellent defense skills, caring characters when meeting with criminal suspects, comprehensive and meticulous attitude when reviewing case files, rigorous and careful analysis of evidence and excellent defense opinions. He aims at maximizing interests of the clients and insists on the principle of “opinion exchanges without collusion, communication without trade”, and adheres to professionality and effective defense. He pays attention to evidence analysis, dissects case files, and analyzes the case completely, carefully and deeply, in order to spot the breakthrough, identify the case facts, and apply the law accurately. Mr. Liu is also well known for his professionalism and diligence.

Mr. Liu has dealt with many cases with significant influences, such as the redress of Fujian Miao Xinhua's intentional murder case (which was rated as one of the top ten innocent cases by the People's Supreme Court), the appealing case of Huang ping's crime of gangland organization, Guangming landslide case in Shenzhen, a case of duty crime committed by a deputy departmental official in Chongqing, a bribery case committed by the chairman of a real estate developer in Jiangmen (which successfully ruled out illegal evidence and was finally acquitted) and a bribery and illegally transfer or scalp land-use right case committed by the chairman of a real estate company in Sanya City, all of which achieved good defense results.

In offcial crimes such as corruption, bribery, abuse of authority, negligence of duty, etc., Mr. Liu represents the defendants to communicate with the investigation authority and the people's procuratorate, and try to collect innocence or less guilty evidences, in order to defend the just right of the defendants. Mr. Liu bargains sentencing for the defendant with people's procuratorate, and provides advice on plea of guilty and punishment acceptance, and not guilty defense. Mr. Liu also provides not or less guilty defense in courts. Mr. Liu combines strategies of procedural defense method such as exclusion of illegally obtained evidence, making investigations and collecting evidence, and substantive defense method in order to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the defendants. Mr. Liu has the courage to defy the political power and provide defense of not guilty and fight for the maximum interests of the clients. He has achieved a lot of successful examples for doing so.

In crimes of the gangland nature, Mr. Liu is one of the few defense lawyers who has the courage to challenge the accusation and truly defend the defendants in courts, and provides effective defense service for the clients. In the meantime, he maintains benign communication with public security organs, people’s procuratorates, and people’s courts to maximize the interests of the defendants. He has won lots of praises from fellow lawyers, judges, and prosecutors, and played a good exemplary role for young lawyers.

In economic crimes, Mr. Liu provides service for clients on accusations and legal protection of property. He provides legal solutions to prevent the management and shareholders of the corporation from embezzling corporation assets. Mr. Liu is also good at criminal disputes arising from the mixing of corporation and private property. Mr. Liu provides accurate analysis and defense for corporations concerning crimes arising from commercial disputes and fraud. He also provides compliance reform and defense for direct selling companies suspected of violations of MLM laws and regulations. Mr. Liu provides legal services for companies suspected of false issuance of invoices, smuggling, commercial bribery, embezzlement, illegal mining, illegal fundraising, and illegal reselling of land use rights. He also defends corporations in the industries of procurement, production, sales etc., for its innocence or less guilty if involving criminal charges.

Mr. Liu Ping has both LL.M and FMBA degrees. He has a good foundation of financial theory and is familiar with financial practice. He understands financial business deeply and is good at dealing with financial legal affairs. He provides clients with legal advice on whether they constitute a crime or criminal risk control strategies. He provides defenses for private equity firms on embezzlement, embezzlement of funds and other crimes. He also provides private equity firms with investigations and responses to criminal risks, dealing with the aftermath if a private equity fund cannot be cashed, and coordinating with investors. He provides effective defense for private equity companies on suspicion of fraud in fund-raising and illegally taking deposits from the general public, etc.

Mr. Liu Ping provides crisis responses and legal solutions for listed companies, directors, supervisors, and management of security companies, who are suspected of manipulating the securities market, insider trading, financial fraud, market value management, "rat warehouse" trading, fraudulent issuance, fraudulent information disclosure, and other illegal and criminal activities. He also provides investigation responses and criminal defenses for illegal off-exchange fund allocation, quantitative transactions, use of undisclosed information transactions, fabricated and disseminated false information, "hat-grabbing" transactions, black-mouthed bewitching transactions, market manipulation, etc. in the secondary market.  He representing clients coordinates and communicates with the Securities Regulatory Commission and attends the hearings, and works hard on distinguishing the boundaries between administrative securities violations and criminal crimes.

Mr. Liu Ping is a pioneer in the area of the bulk commodity trading platform and the futures trading platform suspected of crime of fraud and illegal business, and has accumulated a large number of successful cases. Lots of his cases has been selected as representative cases by the people’s courts. He handled Shenzhen's first criminal case involving blockchain digital currency, and provides criminal compliance for issuance, ICO, fundraising, digital currency operations of the blockchain virtual digital currency companies. Mr. Liu provides criminal defenses for virtual digital currency companies suspected of fraud, illegal operation, fund-raising fraud, money laundering, organization and leadership of pyramid schemes, etc.

Mr. Liu Ping has participated in the founding of an internet corporation, and has a deep understanding of the development and operation of the Internet industry. In Internet crimes, he provides internet companies, game companies, big data artificial intelligence companies, etc. with legal services such as data security legal protection strategies, data compliance, legal protection of trade secrets, accusations of occupational occupation, corporate criminal compliance and other legal services.  He also provides defenses for shareholders, directors and senior executives of these companies in criminal cases.  He provides defenses and compliance reform programs for company executives concerning crime of illegally invading computer information system, crime of illegally obtaining data of computer information system or illegally controlling computer information system, crime of providing program or tool used for intruding into or illegally controlling computer information system, crime of assistance in cyber criminal activities, and areas of illegally obtaining people’s information data, web crawlers, buying and selling citizens' personal information data, and illegal collection of information data.

Mr. Liu Ping has dealt with many criminal cases involving infringement of intellectual property rights, including crime of infringing copyright, the crime of counterfeiting registered trademarks and the crime of selling counterfeit registered trademarks, both in traditional fields such as tobacco and alcohol, food, clothing and cosmetics and cultural and creative fields such as digital reading, online education and financial technology.  He also provides services in crime of trademark infringement related to electronic products, digital copyright crimes and crimes of infringing trade secrets, as well as crimes of infringing intellectual property rights through the interaction of "e-commerce platform", "network social platform" and "cloud storage platform".  He is also good at the crimes of infringement of the original server storage, P2P download and sharing, and the cases committed by using chain theft, network disk and mobile terminal aggregation app, where he can accurately distinguish the complex technology identification and legal application involved.

In drug crime cases, Mr. Liu Ping is one of the pioneer attorneys in China to study the refined defense strategies, and one of the first attorneys to detailed summarize the legal norms, classic cases and defense focus issues on drug crimes. He provides service for innocence and less guilt defense by analyzing evidence meticulously, detailed evidence cross examination, and powerful defense strategies. Mr. Liu also provides defense of exemption from the death penalty and the defense of the death penalty review procedure of the Supreme Court in major drug-related crime cases. He has accumulated a large number of successful criminal cases in drug crimes.

Mr. Liu Ping has made great achievements in the field of criminal compliance, including service for building compliance program as a condition of non-prosecution, helping corporations to build criminal compliance programs, coordinating the criminal compliance reform process and supervision procedures with people’s procuratorate, providing companies with a full set of legal supervision design for anti-bribery, anti-fraud and anti-infringement, building and operating reporting platforms for companies. He also provides service for companies on internal interviews, business partner interviews, criminal investigation and evidence collection involving company employees, accusations, etc,. Mr. Liu is also good at providing actual controllers, directors, supervisors and senior executives of listed companies with strategies to deal with criminal crisis, and providing special criminal compliance programs for both listed companies and companies to be listed before IPO.