On October 16, 2026, LegalOne, an internationally renowned professional rating agency, announced its 2026 “Stellar Novo” list of outstanding young lawyers. Thanks to their exceptional professional expertise and outstanding client service skills, Xu Wei and Ye Jing, attorneys at King&Capital Law Firm, were honored on this list.
Xu Wei, a partner at Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, specializes in “digital criminal defense,” focusing not only on the governance of crimes in the digital space but also on leveraging digital technology to enhance criminal defense capabilities. His research in this field centers on issues such as the determination of technical facts, the examination of electronic data, the protection of data rights, the classification of virtual assets, the application of platform rules, and the governance of cross-border crimes. He is the author of *Case Studies in Cybercrime*.
Attorney Xu Wei is an Outstanding Defense Attorney of the Beijing Lawyers Association and the champion of the Beijing Youth Criminal Defense Moot Court Competition. He currently serves as a member of the Beijing Lawyers Association Think Tank and the Research Group on Major and Complex Cases; a lawyer in the Criminal Appeal Lawyer Pool of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate; an expert in the *Rule of Law Daily* Expert Pool; a contributing expert author for LexisNexis; and an expert in the Intellectual Property Joint Construction Expert Pool of Haikou and Baoding. He also serves as Deputy Director of the King&Capital Intellectual Property Crime Research Center.
Attorney Xu Wei’s practice spans the fields of internet technology, finance, intellectual property, as well as criminal risk prevention and criminal enforcement. Cases he has handled have been selected as model cases by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, included in the Supreme People’s Procuratorate’s official reports, and shortlisted for the “Top Ten Classic Acquittal Defense Cases Nationwide” selection.
Ye Jing, an attorney at Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, holds a Master of Laws from Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics. She is a member of the Chaoyang District Youth Working Committee in Beijing, an Outstanding Communist Party Member in the Chaoyang District legal profession, a member of the Party Committee’s Organizational Committee and Secretary of the Third Party Branch at Beijing King&Capital Law Firm, and has been recognized as an Outstanding Attorney and Outstanding Party Member at the firm. She holds securities and fund industry qualifications and is a Senior Corporate Compliance Specialist.
Attorney Ye Jing has been practicing law for over a decade. She previously served as Legal Affairs Manager at a subsidiary of a listed company, focusing primarily on the resolution of major civil and commercial disputes and providing legal services to enterprises and public institutions. She specializes particularly in handling complex issues for enterprises and public institutions, matrimonial and family law matters, corporate equity structure reorganization, and cases involving the intersection of criminal and civil law.
Her major clients include China Supply and Marketing E-Commerce Co., Ltd., Beijing 798 Cultural and Creative Industry Investment Co., Ltd., Beijing Qixing Huadian Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing Shounong Development Co., Ltd., Hebei Petroleum Vocational and Technical College, Shanggao County Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, and Beijing Aerospace Long March Flight Vehicle Research Institute, among other large central state-owned enterprises, state-owned enterprises, and public institutions.
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