Kangda Law Firm

Criminal Legal Services

Partner

Mr. Wang Kedong has fifteen years of legal service experience, with a background in economic management and law. He received the "Criminal Defence Elite Lawyer Award" on the third anniversary of Kangda Law Firm. He completed his postgraduate studies at Renmin University of China Law School, under the supervision of Professor Huang Jingping. He previously founded a law firm, where he led legal practice and team building, accumulating extensive experience in handling major cases, particularly in developing comprehensive strategies for complex cases.

Since commencing practice, he has focused on criminal defence, specialising in securities crimes, financial crimes, and the prevention and defence of duty-related crimes. His team has developed a full-chain prevention and control system of "administrative response → criminal defence → civil litigation response → compliance reconstruction," and is one of the earliest legal service teams in China to systematically build a "full-process defence integrating administrative and criminal enforcement" in securities crimes. During his practice, he has handled over a hundred criminal cases, with securities cases accounting for more than 60% in recent years, covering insider trading, market manipulation, financial fraud, fraudulent issuance, non-disclosure, and private fund violations, with many cases resulting in non-prosecution or sentence reduction. In addition, he has participated in handling over ten duty-related crime cases at the division, bureau, and division-general levels, and dozens of economic crime cases involving financial institutions, accumulating extensive experience in complex criminal defence. He also serves as standing legal counsel to several large companies, with extensive experience in corporate compliance and negotiation.

He is currently a member of the Criminal Litigation Committee of the Beijing Lawyers Association and a member of the Small and Medium-Sized Law Firm Development Committee of the Chaoyang District Lawyers Association, Beijing. He has been appointed as one of the first batch of "Listing Advisors" by the Financial Development Bureau of a city, and is a member of the Criminal Professional Committee and Financial Professional Committee of Kangda Law Firm. He is actively engaged in public legal education and has been awarded titles including "Top Ten Golden Popularisers of Law" by Toutiao, "Annual Emerging Creator" by NetEase, and "Ingenuity Notable Lawyer" by Baidu, with his legal education content receiving over 100 million views across the internet.

Chinese (Mandarin)

• Member of the Criminal Litigation Committee of the Beijing Lawyers Association

• Member of the Small and Medium-Sized Law Firm Development Committee of the Chaoyang District Lawyers Association, Beijing

Master of Laws, Renmin University of China

Selected Cases

Securities Crime Cases:

Since 2022, has handled dozens of cases involving insider information disclosure, insider trading, and trading using undisclosed information for executives and actual controllers of investment companies, listed companies, and state-owned enterprises in Beijing, Shanghai, Xinjiang, Chongqing, Shenzhen and other regions. Among the concluded insider trading cases, multiple resulted in non-arrest or non-prosecution decisions.

• A private equity insider trading case was reported to the Supreme People's Court and received an extremely lenient sentence below the statutory minimum.

• Full-process administrative, criminal and civil representation in a case involving fraudulent issuance and non-disclosure by a manufacturing group, its listed company and actual controller.

• Criminal defence in a case of fraudulent issuance of securities and non-disclosure by a film and television industry listed company.

• Administrative and criminal representation in a non-disclosure case involving an advertising industry listed company.

• Representation in a market manipulation, insider trading and non-disclosure case involving the actual controller of a manufacturing listed company.

• A case involving a large accounting firm's document falsification offence resulted in a full-case non-prosecution.

• A case involving a Dalian evaluation firm was changed from fraud prosecution to providing false documentation, and the prosecution was ultimately withdrawn.

Duty-Related Crime Cases:

• Embezzlement and misappropriation of public funds by a Beijing bank president, with sentence reduction.

• Dereliction of duty by a Beijing chairman of a state-owned company, with sentence reduction.

• Bribery case of a Anhui bureau director (bureau level), with mitigated sentence defence.

• Bribery and other offences case involving a Hebei investment group chairman (deputy bureau level, involving hundreds of millions of yuan), with mitigated sentence defence.

• Abuse of power, bribery and favouritism case of a Anhui bureau director (division level), remanded for retrial with mitigated sentence.

• Bribery and embezzlement case of a Jiangsu financial group chairman (division level), with mitigated sentence defence and significant reduction in the amount.

• Embezzlement case of a Hunan deputy director (section level), acquittal defence, resulting in release.

• Case involving illegal distribution of state-owned assets by a Chongqing financial institution chairman.

• Bribery case involving a Beijing communications division (division-general level).

• Fraud case involving a Dalian leader (bureau level) in a duty-related crime, with charges changed and non-prosecution after release on bail.

Commercial and Financial Crime Cases:

• A series of cases involving a Guangxi bank being defrauded of loans and intentional injury (involving tens of billions of yuan).

• Embezzlement case of a Shanghai financial group executive (involving over RMB 100 million).

• Credit card fraud case of a Shaanxi chairman, acquitted at first instance, verdict upheld after appeal.

• Major explosion tort case of a Guangdong company (involving hundreds of millions of yuan in losses).

• False VAT invoicing case of Zhou from Jiangxi (involving RMB 2.2 billion), conviction with exemption from punishment.

• False VAT invoicing case of Xue from Shanxi (involving RMB 1.3 billion), mitigated sentence defence.

• False VAT invoicing case of Liang from Beijing (involving over RMB 100 million), sentence reduction.

• Major smuggling case of Li from Tianjin (involving nearly RMB 100 million in evaded taxes), sentence reduction.

• Organising and leading a pyramid scheme case of Liu from Liaoning (involving billions of yuan and 500,000 participants), sentence reduction.

• Illegal fund-raising cases of Zhang and Cui from Beijing, with sentence reduction and non-prosecution.

• Major fund-raising fraud case of a Beijing company.

• Bitcoin-related organising and leading a pyramid scheme case of Zhang from Shandong.

Organised Crime Cases:

• Retrial application case of Du from Liaoning for organised crime.

• Retrial application case of Sun from Jiangsu for organised crime.

Dispute Resolution:

• Litigation consultant for a series of equity disputes of a Beijing film and television group.

• Litigation consultant for a series of shareholder disputes of a Beijing international trade group company.

• Legal counsel for an airline company's equity dispute.

• Legal services for a bank's enforcement cases.

• Legal counsel for litigation matters of a major internet company.