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Kyoto Honors | King&Capital Law Firm and Multiple Attorneys Selected for LawNew's “Premium Legal Service Brands Guide (2025)”
Released on:2025-09-08

On September 7, 2025, “Lixin Society Legal Service Innovation and Development Forum and Lixin Guide 2025 Autumn Conference” was held in Shenzhen. This fall conference focused on the release of the four major segments of the professional guide, awarded a number of awards in different fields, such as “brand influence firms”, “leading lawyers”, “power lawyers” and other awards.

King&Capital Law Firm was selected as “Brand Influential Law Firm” in “Boutique Legal Services Brand Guide (2025): Commercial Crime” and “Boutique Legal Services Brand Guide (2025): Competition Law” respectively.


Liang Yali was honored as “Leading Lawyer” in the field of commercial crime; Liu Lijie and Zhang Qiming were honored as “Strength Lawyers” in the field of commercial crime; Xu Ying, Peng Jiyue, Xia Jun, Li Bo and Weng Xiaoping were honored as “Craftsmanship Lawyers” in the field of commercial crime; and Jin Yi was honored as “Brand Influential Law Firm” in the field of competition law. “Jin Yi was honored as ”Artisanal Lawyer“ in the field of Competition Law; Chang Sha was honored as ”Artisanal Lawyer" in the field of Culture, Entertainment and Sports.


Liang Yali is a senior partner of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, director of the Kyoto Criminal Defense Research Center, deputy director of the Institute of Criminal Defense of Northwestern University of Political Science and Law, and executive director of the Third Council of the China Society of Criminal Law. In her thirty years of practice, Ms. Liang has successfully undertaken many significant and influential criminal cases and difficult and complex civil and commercial cases, which have been reported by many domestic media. She is particularly good at the intersection of criminal and civil and commercial affairs and the intersection of criminal and administrative areas of business, is committed to the study of the legal prevention and control of enterprise risk, and has for a number of large-scale enterprises, government departments, institutions and foreign-invested enterprises to provide excellent legal advisory services, in the legal prevention and control of enterprise risk, enterprise restructuring, asset reorganization, and other aspects of the practice of the accumulation of a wealth of practical experience. Mr. Liang has been honored as the Criminal Defense Lawyer of the Year in 2014 by Fangyuan Law & Politics, the Person who Helps Prevent Financial Risks in 2017 by China Enterprise News, the “Model Person of the Year in Commercial Rule of Law Construction” in 2019 by China Business News, the Special Contribution Award for Commercial Rule of Law 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 Lawyers in Dispute Resolution, 2022 Brand Influence - Exemplary Lawyer in Practicing Social Responsibility, 2022 LEGALBAND China Lawyer Special Recommendation Top 15: Commercial Crime and Criminal Compliance, 2023-2025 Chambers Greater China & Global Guide Leading Lawyer in Dispute Resolution, 2024 LegalOne Client Trusted Lawyer (Blue Ribbon) “Top 15 in Commercial Crime and Criminal Compliance”, 2024 Law Society Benchmark Case of the Year - Commercial Crime, 2024 Law Society Top 30 Women in Leadership in the Legal Industry, 2025 GRCD-China Female Lawyer of the Year, 2025 ALB China Top 15 Litigation Lawyers.


Liu Lijie, PhD in Criminal Law from China University of Political Science and Law, Head of Criminal Practice II and Senior Partner of King&Capital Law Firm in Beijing, 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 Law School, Researcher of China University of Political Science and Law, Research Center of Innovative Development of Criminal Defense, Vice President of Beijing Municipal Debt Law Research Society, former lawyer of Lawyer Expert Pool of Rule of Law Journal Mr. Liu Lijie is a member of the expert pool of the National Youth Legal Network of the Ministry of Education. In 2007, Mr. Liu Lijie entered an intermediate court in the capital city, and has the experience of working in the basic court, intermediate court, high court and the Supreme Court (four levels of trial and death penalty review), and he has published many professional works, and more than 600,000 professional articles in the People's Court Newspaper, the People's Judiciary, the China Law Review, the Criminal Trial Reference, the Annual Cases of the Chinese Courts, the Key Cases of China's Trial, and Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po and Ta Kung Pao. He has published more than 600,000 words of professional articles and participated in 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 honored as the typical cases of the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Supreme People's Court. Mr. Liu Lijie has served as a permanent or special (criminal) legal advisor to 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, Bank of Zhangjiakou, Halliburton (China) Energy Services Company Limited, and other enterprises and institutions.


Zhang Qiming, senior partner of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, graduated from the Law School of Renmin University of China, Master of Criminal Law, mainly practicing in the field of criminal defense of blackmail cases, financial crimes, and office crimes, and was awarded the title of “Top Ten Public Prosecutors” and “Outstanding Public Prosecutor” at the provincial level. She has won the titles of “Top Ten Public Prosecutors” and “Excellent Public Prosecutor” at the provincial level. She has handled a number of cases supervised by the central government and the provincial government, and a series of heavy cases, including the murder for hire case in Nanning, where she won the case of murder for hire and handled a number of cases of securities crimes and achieved good results.


Xu Ying is a senior partner of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, with a master's degree in criminal law, and studied at China University of Political Science and Law and Peking University successively. She is a leading young lawyer of the National Lawyers Association, a practical tutor of the Law School of the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the College of Criminal Defense of the Northwest University of Political Science and Law, a member of the Society of Criminal Law, a member of the Business Advisory Committee of the Legal Aid Center of the Ministry of Justice, a voluntary lawyer of the Litigation Service Center of the Supreme People's Court, a member of the Criminal Law Association of Beijing Municipal Law Society, a member of the Criminal Committee of the Beijing Lawyers Association, a member of the Criminal Committee of the Chaoyang District Lawyers Association, a member of the Lawyer's Association of Beijing. Member of the Criminal Specialized Committee of Beijing Lawyers Association, member of the Lawyer Expert Bank of Rule of Law Daily. She has been interviewed by CCTV.com, Legal Network and other centralized media. Mr. Xu Ying has handled many difficult and complex criminal cases with great influence at home and abroad, and has accumulated a lot of practical and successful experience in the fields of financial crimes, office crimes, black-related cases, criminal cases involving intellectual property rights, and compliance business, etc. He has been selected by the Beijing Municipal Court as one of the best judges in the field of criminal procedure. His cases have been selected as typical cases by Beijing Municipal Court and Beijing Municipal Procuratorate.


Peng Jiyue is a senior partner of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, the partner-in-charge of the Third Department of the Criminal Practice Group in Kyoto, a specially-appointed lawyer in the Expert Consultation Pool of the Supreme People's Procuratorate's Prosecution and Application, and a researcher of the Advanced Institute of Criminal Defense of Northwestern University of Politics and Law.2024, Mr. Peng Jiyue was named “Star of Strength” in the field of commercial crime defense in China by LegalOne ". Mr. Peng has long specialized in the fields of office crimes, commercial crimes and financial crimes. He has handled many major cases involving provincial ministerial and departmental cadres. For example, the former vice chairman of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Mr. Tong, who was investigated by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) for dereliction of duty, and Mr. Yang, a former cadre of the former Ministry of Railways, who was involved in bribery. Mr. Peng has also defended well-known entrepreneurs such as Wang Mou, the president of Baoshang Bank, who was involved in a case involving nearly 100 billion yuan, Xia Mou, a Harvard doctor, and Yang Mou, the chairman of a Hong Kong listed company, who was awarded the title of Top Ten Economic Women in 2005. In addition, Mr. Peng has provided professional defense for executives of 360, Tencent and Baidu. Some of his cases have received extensive attention from CCTV, Caixin.com and other media. Mr. Peng has served as an executive of a Fortune 500 foreign company for more than ten years, and he is able to analyze business disputes with a unique legal mindset. Adhering to the concept of front-loading defense work, he handles cases personally, is good at communicating efficiently with case handlers, and is good at making use of the key time before the trial to maximize the interests of his clients. Mr. Peng is the author of “The Power of Defense” and has participated in books such as “Criminal Defense Tutorial” led by Tian Wenchang. He has been invited to give speeches at China University of Political Science and Law, Renmin University of China and other universities.


Xia Jun, senior partner of King&Capital Law Firm, researcher of the Advanced Institute of Criminal Defense of Northwestern University of Political Science and Law, tutor of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications for postgraduates' off-campus practice, member of China Criminal Law Society, member of Criminal Law Committee of the 12th Beijing Municipal Lawyers' Association, member of Criminology Research Society of Beijing Law Society, Mr. Xia Jun was the secretary-general of the 11th Beijing Municipal Lawyers' Association's Research Society of Criminal Practice, and was a member of the Rule of Law Mr. Xia Jun was the secretary-general of the 11th Beijing Lawyers Association Criminal Practice Research Committee and a member of the Rule of Law Daily Lawyers Expert Bank. Mr. Xia Jun specializes in criminal defense of office crimes and economic crimes, and has undertaken many major difficult and complex criminal cases with certain social influence over the past ten years, and has achieved good defense results and performance in many cases. Ms. Xia Jun was awarded the title of 2024 LegalOne Clients' Trusted Lawyer: Top 15 Outstanding Female Lawyers (North China), the title of 2024 LegalOne Star of Strength in China, the title of 2024 Lawyer of “Guide to Boutique Legal Service Brands” by Lixin, and the title of “Outstanding Lawyer” by Beijing Chaoyang District. “Outstanding Lawyer” honorary title.


Li Bo is a lawyer of King&Capital Law Firm, Director of the Environment, Energy and Resources Law Research Center of King&Capital Law Firm, member of the Population, Resources and Environment Committee of the 14th Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang of China, member of the Environment and Resources Committee of Beijing Lawyers' Association, mediator of China Mining International Arbitration and Mediation Center, and an expert of the Expert Pool of Legal Daily. Mainly engaged in the environmental field, financial field, private lawyers and other related legal affairs, in the environmental criminal offenses, financial criminal offenses, has accumulated rich experience in handling cases, for the criminal non-prosecution and probation application of more research, has handled a large number of financial crimes and environmental crimes, and published “pollution of the environment of the crime of ”subjective fault He has also published many articles such as “The Determination of Subjective Fault in Environmental Pollution Crimes” and “Review and Examination of Appraisal Opinions”.


Weng Xiaoping, senior partner of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, PhD in criminal law, once worked in a central ministry, long-time adviser of the Criminal Practice Committee of the All-China Lawyers Association, former director of the Tian Wenchang lawyers assistant, participated in a large number of major, complex economic crimes, job-related crimes, smuggling crimes and other cases of defense, and achieved a lot of bailing out, non-prosecution, as well as the application of probation and reduction of the sentence and other good results of the defense. Lighter treatment of good defense results. Mr. Weng Xiaoping has in-depth understanding and research on issues related to office crimes, internet information security, data security, internet finance, criminal and civil intersection, etc. He also has a lot of research and practical experience in the field of corporate legal risk prevention and compliance. He has been interviewed by a large number of media outlets, including Xinhua Net, Rule of Law Daily, People's Court Daily, Workers' Daily, Surge News, Legal Essay, etc., and has published numerous influential views on hot social issues; he has also lectured on a number of attorney training courses on platforms such as No Lawsuit and LCOUNCIL. Part-time jobs in society: Practical tutor at the Law School of the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; researcher and training tutor at the Advanced Institute of Criminal Defense of Northwestern University of Political Science and Law; part-time teacher at Beijing City College; member of the Beijing Enterprise Legal Risk Prevention and Control Research Association; member of the China Criminal Law Association; member of the China Law Society; expert of the Lawyer Expert Pool of Rule of Law Daily; visiting professor at the School of Law and Public Administration of Hunan University of Science and Technology.


Jin Yi is the partner-in-charge of the Antitrust Department of Beijing King&Capital Law Firm. Mr. Jin Yi specializes in anti-monopoly, anti-unfair competition and intellectual property rights, representing cases involving anti-monopoly litigation, investigation, declaration of operator concentration and corporate compliance. Before the Anti-Monopoly Law came into effect in 2008, Mr. Jin had already started to cooperate with the Ministry of Commerce and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce to handle foreign investment mergers and acquisitions in accordance with the “Provisions on the Mergers and Acquisitions of Domestic Enterprises by Foreign Investors”, and so far, he has handled nearly 200 cases of declaration of concentration of operators, most of which are the transactions of well-known multinational enterprises involving various industries such as pharmaceuticals, chemical industry, shipping, energy, automobiles, foodstuffs, publishing, media, education, sports and so on. Most of them are well-known multinational enterprises, involving pharmaceuticals, chemicals, shipping, energy, automobiles, food, publishing, media, education, sports and other industries. Mr. Jin Yi also represented Beijing Qihoo Technology Co. Ltd. v. Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. and Shenzhen Tencent Computer System Co. Ltd. in the case of abuse of dominant market position heard by the Supreme People's Court, which was selected as a guiding case by the Supreme People's Court in 2017. 2021 to 2025, Mr. Jin Yi was selected as a recommended lawyer by Chambers USA in the category of “Competition and Antitrust” for five consecutive years. From 2021 to 2025, Mr. Jin Yi was selected as a recommended lawyer by Chambers' “Competition and Antitrust” for five consecutive years, and was selected as a recommended lawyer for “Competition Law and Antitrust” by The Legal 500 in 2022, 2023, and 2024 consecutively, and was selected as a recommended lawyer for “Competition Law and Antitrust” by LEGALBAND. In 2024, Mr. Jinyi was selected as one of the “LEGALBAND Client's Choice: Top 15 Competition Lawyers”, and in 2025, Mr. Jinyi was selected as one of the “GRCD China Client's Choice: Top 15 Competition/Antitrust Lawyers”.


Ms. Chang Sha is a partner of King&Capital Law Firm, a member of Beijing Lawyer Association Culture, Tourism, Media and Sports Law Committee, and a member of Beijing Chaoyang District Lawyer Association Culture and Media Practice Research Committee. Ms. Chang's main practice areas are: intellectual property, entertainment law, civil and commercial litigation and arbitration. She has profound theoretical background and practical experience in the field of civil and commercial law, and is well versed in the rules of strategic management of intellectual property rights of enterprises, and can skillfully deal with copyright protection, trademark protection, intellectual property infringement investigation and litigation, and anti-unfair competition and other related areas of professional legal practice. Mr. Chang's main clients are listed companies in the film and television industry, large-scale Internet platforms, head artists, famous live e-commerce enterprises, etc., providing them with permanent consultants, film and television cultural project cooperation, development and product investment and financing, intellectual property rights management, protection, and anti-unfair competition, artist brokers and rights protection and other legal services.