On the afternoon of June 26, 2026, the “Seminar and Deliberation Session on Major and Complex Cases,” co-hosted by the First Criminal Division and the Kyoto Criminal Defense Research Center, was successfully held at Kyoto Law Firm.
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The seminar and review session was chaired by Zang Desheng, Senior Partner at King&Capital Law Firm. Lead attorney Yan Huainan presented the case details and the entire first-instance litigation process. Participants included Wang Yichao, Associate Professor and Master’s Advisor at the School of Law, Minzu University of China; Xie Wenjing, attorney at Dacheng Law Firm and former prosecutor in a certain district of Beijing; Zhu Yalin, Senior Partner at King&Capital Law Firm; Yang Dakang, former President and Editor-in-Chief of *China Law Review* and current advisor; Cong Zhuoyi, former senior criminal judge and trial expert at a Beijing Intermediate People’s Court; partners Yang Haiming, Liu Jihui, Guo Liangjing, and Xu Wei; full-time criminal defense attorneys Han Ruiqi, Li Xiaoxi, Wu Shaodan, Chen Sainan, He Shunqi, Jin Yuting, Ge Jingjing, Liu Bolin, and others jointly attended the meeting and conducted a collective discussion from the perspectives of financial practice and criminal adjudication.
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At the meeting, Attorney Yan Huainan provided a systematic and comprehensive overview of the facts of a case he handled involving the crime of illegal lending. Participants analyzed and discussed issues such as the boundaries of the perpetrator’s credit activities, whether national regulations were violated, reasonable standards for due diligence, substantive requirements for determining losses, and whether corporate criminal liability applied, while sharing their respective viewpoints.
Participants clarified the criteria for distinguishing between criminal and civil liability in financial lending activities, defined the judicial standards for loss calculation, job performance, and corporate liability in judicial practice, and developed a systematic defense strategy.
This seminar integrated diverse perspectives from criminal adjudication and financial industry practice to outline general defense strategies for financial credit-related criminal cases, providing professional guidance for handling similar cases.
