On 31 December 2024, the internationally renowned professional rating agency LegalOne announced the 2024 ‘LegalOne Stellar Accolade’ list. With excellent legal service capability, wide market recognition and outstanding client reputation, several senior partners of King&Capital Law Firm were honoured in the list in different practice areas.
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Intellectual Property: Trademarks
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Huang Yajun, a senior partner of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, has been engaged in intellectual property law practice for more than 30 years in intellectual property authorities, professional agencies and law firms. She is good at insighting and understanding the in-depth needs of clients' business, and is good at identifying breakthroughs in the cases and proposing constructive solutions and work results, which have resulted in a lot of value-added services for the enterprises. The cases she represented have won the ‘2013 Most Influential Trademark Cases’, ‘Top Ten Hot Trademark Cases’, ‘2018 Trademark Review 20 Typical Cases’ and ‘2018 Trademark Review 20 Typical Cases’ from the Supreme People's Court and China Industry and Commerce Newspaper, and the Chinese Trademark Association was established. ’, the Chinese Trademark Association was established ‘30 years 30 typical cases’ and many other professional recognition. With more than 30 years of legal experience, Ms. Huang Yajun is good at dealing with all kinds of difficult and complex intellectual property litigation cases, and has accumulated rich and practical practice experience in the fields of enterprise intellectual property legal compliance, risk prevention and control, intangible assets commercial operation, strategic layout of intellectual property assets, and intellectual property criminal offences, etc. She has been serving the clients for many years. The team under her leadership has been serving large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises, listed companies, famous foreign enterprises and leading private enterprises, etc., and she has fully applied her professional knowledge and meticulous legal thinking to provide professional and refined intellectual property services for the enterprises, which has won the trust of the clients.
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Infrastructure Construction
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Liu Jingxia, senior partner of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, has nearly 30 years of experience in providing legal services such as planning, programme design and negotiation for governmental and corporate investment and financing projects. She is one of the earliest and continuously practicing lawyers in China in the field of securities business and the professional field of PPP, and is an expert of multiple ministries of the State. She leads a team of professionals to provide full-process services for clients‘ projects with investment banking thinking, and has experienced many large-scale and influential projects, providing accompanying professional services for the government and enterprises in the whole process, and guaranteeing clients’ compliance to achieve the project goals. She has a comprehensive and profound understanding of society and economy, and has made outstanding achievements in the fields of infrastructure and public utilities investment and financing, securities and capital market legal services, state-owned enterprises reform and M&A and restructuring, ecological environmental protection and industrial integration development, and digital economy legal services, etc. She is able to practically solve problems for her clients, and she is a modest person with a high level of respect from clients. He is highly respected by his clients.
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Commercial Crime
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Yali Liang, Senior Partner of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, Director of King&Capital Criminal Defence Research Center, Vice Director of the Institute of Criminal Defence of Northwest University of Political Science and Law, Executive Director of the Third Council of China Criminal Law Research Society. In her thirty years of practice, Liang has successfully undertaken many significant and influential criminal cases and difficult and complex civil and commercial cases, and has been reported by many domestic media. She is particularly good at the cross-cutting areas of criminal and civil and commercial affairs and cross-cutting areas of criminal and administrative business, is committed to the study of the legal prevention and control of enterprise risks, and has provided excellent legal advisory services for a number of large-scale enterprises, government departments, institutions and foreign-invested enterprises, and in the legal prevention and control of enterprise risks, enterprise restructuring, asset restructuring, and other aspects of the accumulation of rich practical experience in the practice of law. Mr. Liang has been awarded as the Criminal Defence Lawyer of the Year 2014 by Fangyuan Law & Politics, the Person who Helps Prevent Financial Risks 2017 by China Enterprise News, the ‘Model Person of the Year in Commercial Rule Construction’ in 2019 by China Business News, the Special Contribution Award in Commercial Rule Construction in 2020 by China Business News, and the Annual Award of 2021 by LEGALBAND China Lawyer Special Recommendation Top 15: Criminal Compliance, 2022 Chambers Greater China Leading Lawyer in Dispute Resolution, 2022 Brand Influence - Model Lawyer in Social Responsibility, 2022 LEGALBAND China Lawyer Special Recommendation Top 15: Commercial Crime and Criminal Compliance, 2023-2024 Chambers Greater China Leading Lawyer in Dispute Resolution, 2024 LEGALBAND China Lawyer Special Recommendation Top 15: Commercial Crime and Criminal Compliance, 2023-2024 LEGALBAND China Lawyer Special Recommendation Top 15: Commercial Crime and Criminal Compliance. 2023-2024 Chambers Greater China Leading Lawyers in Dispute Resolution, 2024 LegalOne Lawyers Trusted by Clients (Blue Ribbon) ‘Top 15 Lawyers in Commercial Crime and Criminal Compliance’.
Lijie Liu, Senior Partner and Partner-in-Charge of Criminal Practice Department II of King&Capital Law Firm, PhD in Criminal Law from China University of Political Science and Law, Practice Tutor of China University of Political Science and Law and College of Criminal Justice, Practice Tutor of University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Researcher of China University of Political Science and Law's Research Centre for Innovative Development of Criminal Defence, was a member of the Expert Pool of Lawyers of Rule of Law Daily, and a member of Expert Pool of the Ministry of Education's National Network of Youth Law Literacy. Expert pool member. Liu Lijie lawyer in 2007 into the capital of an intermediate court work, with the grass-roots courts, intermediate courts, high courts and the Supreme Court (four levels of two trials and death penalty review) work experience, published a number of professional writings, in the People's Court Newspaper, the People's Justice, the China Law Review, the Criminal Trial Reference, the Chinese Court of the Year Cases, the China Trial Case Summary, and Hong Kong Wen Wei Po Ta Kung Pao and other professional articles published more than 500,000 He has published more than 500,000 words of professional articles and participated in handling more than 1,000 cases. Some of the cases have been written into the Report of the Supreme People's Court, and some of the cases have been awarded as typical cases by the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Supreme People's Court. Liu Lijie has served as a permanent or special (criminal) legal advisor to the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, State Grid Yingda Investment Management Company Limited, China Resources Pharmaceutical Commercial Group Company Limited, Bank of China Luxembourg Branch, Bank of Jinzhou, Halliburton (China) Energy Services Co.
Peng Jiyue is a senior partner of King&Capital Law Firm in Beijing, a specially-appointed lawyer of the Supreme People's Procuratorate's expert consulting pool for prosecution and application, a specially-appointed lawyer of the first batch of lawyers' expert pool of Rule of Law Daily, and a researcher of the Institute for Advanced Research in Criminal Defence of Northwest University of Political Science and Law. He used to work as an executive in a Fortune 500 multinational company for nearly ten years. Peng Jiyue has handled the sensational ‘Lei Yang case’, the bribery case of Yang, former director of the Equipment Bureau of the Ministry of Railways and director of the Beijing Railway Bureau, the negligence case of Tong, former vice-chairman of the CPPCC Hunan Provincial Committee and former secretary of Hengyang Municipal Party Committee, and the bribery case of Tian, former deputy director of a branch of Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau. He was also the chief defence counsel for Wang Mou, the president of Baoshang Bank in the financial mega-case, and the defence counsel for Xu Mou in the rare case of using influence to accept a bribe of over 100 million yuan in China. Mr Peng has also handled the case of Xia, a Harvard doctor and the former chairman of Lotus MSG, who damaged the interests of a listed company by breach of trust, the case of Yang, the chairman of a listed company in Hong Kong and one of the top ten economic women of the year in 2005, and has defended the director of intellectual property of 360 Company, Huang, and the director of a department of Baidu Company, Wang, and other senior executives of the company. Some of the cases have been noticed and reported by CCTV, Caixin Net and other media. Mr. Peng Jiyue has authored ‘The Power of Defence’ and co-authored ‘Criminal Defence Tutorial’ and other books, and has also been invited to give speeches at China University of Political Science and Law, Renmin University of China and other colleges and universities.
Xia Jun, Senior Partner of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm. Currently, she is a tutor for postgraduate students of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, a researcher of the Institute of Criminal Defence of Northwestern University of Political Science and Law, a member of the Criminal Law Committee of the 12th Beijing Lawyers‘ Association, a member of the Criminal Law Society of China, and a former secretary-general of the Criminal Practice Research Committee of the 11th Beijing Lawyers’ Association. She was awarded the title of ‘Top 15 Outstanding Female Lawyers (North China)’ by LegalOne in 2024 and ‘Excellent Lawyer’ by Beijing Chaoyang District. Xia Jun lawyers have worked in the Procuratorate and other political and legal organs for many years, joined King&Capital Law Firm is committed to the criminal business, lawyers practice more than ten years has undertaken a large number of criminal proceedings, criminal and civil cross-category cases, has accumulated a wealth of experience in the defence and good work performance. Xia Jun lawyers have undertaken a number of major social impact, involving huge amounts of money, difficult and complex criminal cases, including a technology company involved in more than 40 billion illegal public deposit one of the series of cases, the general manager of a company involved in the amount of nearly 100 billion organisation and leadership of pyramid schemes, the financial system of a vice-ministerial cadres accepting bribes in one of the series of cases, the chairman of a large commercial bank embezzlement series of cases, and so on many cases with significant impact on society. One of the series of cases of bribery of a vice-ministerial cadre in the financial system, one of the series of cases of embezzlement by the chairman of a large commercial bank, and many other difficult and complicated cases with significant social impact. With excellent professionalism, rich experience in defence and good performance, Mr. Xia Jun has won outstanding reputation and wide recognition from clients.
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Construction and Real Estate
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Wang Chunjun is a member of the management committee and senior partner of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm. He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from Peking University and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Engineering Civil Engineering from China University of Geosciences. He used to be the head of legal affairs of a large construction enterprise and is now the legal advisor of several large state-owned central enterprises. He has been engaged in construction legal services for many years, and has undertaken a large number of difficult and complex construction contract disputes, EPC general contracting contracts, dispute resolution cases of PPP projects, as well as engineering legal consulting services for the whole process, and has rich experience in dispute resolution of disputes arising from projects in the fields of electric power, water supply, oil and gas, new energy and infrastructure, etc. He is also an expert in the defence of criminal cases and compliance with the law in the field of construction. He has also achieved outstanding results in the defence and compliance of criminal cases in the field of construction engineering, and has published a number of relevant theoretical research results.
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Corporate Commercial
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Zhao Qilong is a senior partner of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, an external practice instructor of the Law School of the University of International Business and Economics, a member of the Contract Law Committee of the Beijing Lawyers Association, a core member of the King&Capital Civil and Commercial Research Centre, and a Master of Civil and Commercial Law of the China University of Political Science and Law. He has worked in the court system for more than ten years, and has served as the president of the criminal trial court, the enforcement court and the civil trial court. Since she started her career as a lawyer, she has focused on criminal compliance review, criminal and civil cross-defence, civil and commercial litigation and arbitration, and corporate litigation and compliance review, and is good at handling difficult and complex civil and commercial litigation and arbitration cases. He has handled the case of recourse to notes of a technology company in Beijing (listed as one of the top ten typical cases by the Beijing Financial Court), the dispute between Datang International and a power generation company over bankruptcy avoidance (the only successful case in a series of avoidance cases), the case of 2,000 plaintiffs from an asset management company in Shanghai against Leshi.com and Jia Yueting for securities misrepresentation, the case of Kewa Data (a listed company) against a certain Shi and a partnership for transfer of equity, betting agreement, non-competition and restriction of business relationship, and the case of a company's shareholding. The case also includes a series of disputes over equity transfer between Kehua Data (a listed company) and Shi, a partnership, a betting agreement, non-competition restriction, and service commitment, a dispute over equity transfer between Beida Qingbird and Guohao Real Estate (China), a dispute over Tesla's product liability, a dispute over Volvo's product liability, and a dispute over reputation infringement of Shenzhou Youcheng. Zhao Qilong also serves as one of the principals of King&Capital Bankruptcy Research Centre, and has served as the person in charge of a number of bankruptcy liquidations, compulsory liquidations and bankruptcy reorganisations. He has been invited to Peking University, China University of Political Science and Law, and Beijing Normal University to serve as the instructor or commentator of civil and commercial cases in the moot court, and has been awarded the honour of King&Capital's excellent instructor for a number of times.
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Energy and Natural Resources
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Zhang Libin, senior partner of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin College of Law with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree, received a systematic education in English and American common law, and is licensed to practice law in New York State and China. Mr Zhang has been practicing law since 1997 and has more than 20 years of legal experience in international law firms and multinational corporations. He specialises in cross-border investment and mergers and acquisitions, foreign dispute resolution and compliance, and has assisted a number of Chinese companies in their overseas investments (e.g., Xinjiang Guanghui, Sinochem, Shenneng, Jingneng, and Xin'ao Group). Mr. Zhang is a Chinese arbitrator of CIETAC, BIAC, HKIAC and OHADA, and has represented several major oil and gas projects in arbitration and litigation as a trial attorney, and has extensive experience in international arbitration in Singapore and London, and in the Commercial Court of The Hague in The Netherlands, and has been recognised as a top arbitrator in the project and energy sector by authoritative legal rating agencies at home and abroad. He has been recognised as a leading lawyer in the field of projects and energy by both domestic and international legal rating agencies.
