King & Capital Law Firm

Criminal Defense

Senior Partner

- Specialised expertise. 

Attorney Yali LIANG is a senior partner of King & Capital Law Firm (“King & Capital”), the managing partner of dispute resolution team, and also serves as the director of the Criminal Defense Research Center of the firm. Nearly 30 years of practice, attorney LIANG has been focusing on dispute resolution, and is particularly good at resolving the cross-field business of criminal and civil cases and criminal and administrative cases; moreover, she is also dedicated to the research on the legal prevention and control of corporate risks and the criminal compliance of enterprises, and has provided legal advisory services and specialized services to many large state-owned/central enterprises and listed companies in the fields of technology, energy and finance, and also government agencies, institutions and foreign-invested enterprises.

- Client relations.

[An Expert Attorney Who Gives Full Play to Contribute to the Development of the Industry]

Since practicing as an attorney, attorney LIANG has been working hard on the front line of legal practice for a long time, and has accumulated rich and extensive practical experience; gradually, she realizes the transformation from a “professional” attorney to an “expert” attorney. Through summarizing the issues encountered in judicial practice and in-depth research, attorney LIANG has published the Innocence Defense Series.

At the same time, attorney LIANG also exclusively created a live program named “Expert Lectures”, and insisted on promoting the normal broadcasting of the program even during the epidemic. This live program lasted for 9 months, with nearly 100,000 viewers, and was well received by the industry. In addition, attorney LIANG also actively participates in various legal-related activities, and serves in universities, industry associations, teaching and research institutions, etc.; in this way, she has been making unremitting efforts to promote the development of the legal industry.

1.Universities: A practical tutor for postgraduates of Northwest University of Political Science and Law, a senior researcher of the Criminal Defense Research Institute of Northwest University of Political Science and Law, and an off-campus tutor for postgraduates of School of Law of Beijing Foreign Studies University;

2.Industry associations: Director of the Legal Writing Association of CLS, member of the Criminal Defense Committee of China Association of Criminal Procedure Law, and member of the 11th Commercial Crime Prevention and Defense Committee of Beijing Lawyers Association;

Teaching and research institutions: Senior researcher of the People’s Rule of Law Institute of the magazine People·Rule of Law.

Moreover, Attorney LIANG has won the favor of many clients and wide recognition in the industry with her profound legal knowledge and outstanding business competence. The awards and honors that she has received include but are not limited to:

Fangyuan Law2014 Legal Defense Lawyer of the Year Law Lecture Hall2016 Charming Lawyers List Lawyer of the Year award Legal Evening News 2017 annual Public welfare Law Award China Enterprise News 2017 Financial Risk Prevention Person Award Legal Evening News 2018 outstanding lawyer China Business Daily 2019 commercial rule of law construction annual model China Business Daily 2020 Annual Special Contribution Award for the construction of the Rule of Law in commercial affairs 2021 LEGALBAND China's Top 15 Criminal Compliance lawyers 2021 "21st Century Golden Lawyer" 2022 Brand Influence and practice of social responsibility model lawyer LEGALBAND Top 15 Commercial Crime and Criminal Compliance Lawyers of the Year 2021-2022 2022-2024 Chambers Greater China Leading dispute resolution lawyer 2022-2024 Chambers' Global Legal Guide "Dispute Resolution - Litigation" lists lawyers in the individual field

In addition to mentioned above，in terms of client maintenance, attorney Liang maintained daily contact with clients, provided legal risk tips, made regular return visits, and sent research materials. In terms of customer development, she is mainly carried out by holding professional forums, writing professional articles, enhancing network promotion and other ways. In the future, she will pay attention to the secondary development of existing customers and the collection of needs of potential customers, and carry out targeted thematic research to provide more effective suggestions or tips.

One of the clients comments Attorney Liang:

With keen insight and efficient execution, Attorney Liang quickly and directly attacked the key issues in the complicated chaotic phase of the case, and paid a lot of work to restore the original nature of the incident. In the course of the case, Attorney Liang supported the entire legal team to carry out their work in an orderly manner with her tenacious leadership and superb coordination ability, led the overall situation from a professional perspective, effectively coordinated the division of labor and interaction of all parties, and communicated closely with the family members and guided them rationally. In the face of difficulties and struggles, she resolutely defended the interests of the parties, showed extremely professional ability and understanding and respect for human nature, and peacefully used the law to fight for the legitimate rights and interests of the parties.

Attorney Liang defense of social fairness and justice conveys the positive energy of law to us. In its body both the attorney's wisdom, courage and women's meticulous, perseverance, commendable, highly recommended!

- Problem-solving skills. 

Carry on the Effective Defense, Protector of the Rights of Entrepreneurs

The lack of awareness of compliance during the establishment, development and commercial activities of a business often exposes entrepreneurs to various legal risks in the course of their business. Attorney LIANG is well established in the protection of entrepreneurs' rights and interests, and is experienced in financial risk prevention and control, corporate compliance, etc. Her business includes but is not limited to:

Acting for an enterprise representative Wang Mou fraud case, after the professional work of Liang Yali lawyer team, the case in the review and prosecution stage, the contractor prosecutor adopted the lawyer's defense opinions, the crime of duty encroachment (maximum sentence of 15 years imprisonment), contract fraud (maximum sentence of life imprisonment) are not prosecuted. After continuing to serve as the defender of the case in the second trial stage, the second trial court adopted some of the defense opinions of the lawyer and has ordered the remanding for a new trial. In the process of reiteration, part of the lawyer's defense opinions were adopted, and finally only the parties were convicted of fraud, and the sentence period and fine were greatly reduced, and good defense effect was achieved. Acting for a mining company equity transfer dispute retrial. The client is a well-known listed company in the mining field. The case involved in the project is the dispute caused by the equity acquisition of the target company in the same field, and the client has disclosed relevant public information at the time of the acquisition. Once the client loses the case involved in the project, it cannot be ruled out that the client will face the risk of securities regulatory administrative punishment or even criminal legal risks such as commercial crimes. In addition, the cases involved in the project occurred during the critical period of the restructuring of its parent company, Xingye Group, and the listed company is the most important quality asset of its parent company, so whether the customer can be normal is directly related to whether the restructuring of the parent company can be smoothly promoted.

At the review stage of the application for retrial of the case, focusing on the core issues of the dispute at this stage, Lawyer Liang led the members of the litigation team to cooperate in the limited time limited by the court, professionally, comprehensively and thoroughly analyze the case from different angles in various fields of the criminal and the people, quickly improve the details of the case to present and cross-examine the evidence, and complete all the litigation work with due diligence. Finally, the Supreme People's Court made a ruling that the reasons and evidence of the other side of the case were not enough to overturn the judgment of second instance, and rejected the application of the other side of the case for retrial.