Kangda Law Firm

Criminal Legal Services | Corporate compliance

Secretary-General of the Kangda Professional Working Committee

Senior partner

Xia Shan, Secretary-General of Kangda Law Firm's Professional Working Committee, is adept at systematically resolving complex and difficult issues, having accumulated extensive experience in commercial disputes, criminal defence, and corporate compliance. She possesses a broad perspective and excels at finding breakthroughs in seemingly unsolvable situations. Throughout case handling, Ms. Xia pursues the best solutions for her clients with a spirit of overcoming difficulties and meticulous reasoning. Her professional, dedicated, meticulous, and rigorous work attitude has earned her high praise from clients and widespread recognition within the legal industry.

Ms. Xia has achieved remarkable success in the field of corporate compliance, having helped numerous large enterprise groups and listed companies establish efficient, comprehensive, and systematic compliance systems, effectively reducing various legal risks including civil and criminal liabilities. In the process of assisting clients in building compliance systems, Ms. Xia has handled many complex and challenging issues such as securities violations, corporate governance, trade secret protection, and tax compliance.

Bribery Offences (Bribery of State Officials and Commercial Bribery)

In several cases, including a technology company's legal representative suspected of commercial bribery, an investment company's co-president suspected of bribery of state officials, and a telecommunications group's former general manager of a provincial branch suspected of bribery of state officials, she successfully achieved case dismissals, non-prosecution decisions, and withdrawal of indictments by the procuratorate during the trial stage.

Acceptance of Bribes, Embezzlement, and Abuse of Power

She has provided defence for major duty-related crime cases involving officials such as a provincial education department director, a provincial party history office director, a municipal party discipline secretary, the chairman of a state-owned construction group, the chairman of a state-owned investment company, the chairman of a state-owned energy group, the chairman of a state-owned mining group, and a general manager of an insurance company, who were suspected of acceptance of bribes, abuse of power, and embezzlement. Significant breakthroughs were achieved in reducing certain charges, substantially lowering sentences, reducing seized assets, correcting legal characterisations, and securing favourable sentencing circumstances.

Illegal Mining

In a case where an enterprise was suspected of illegal mining (punishable by 3 to 7 years of imprisonment) and illegal occupation of agricultural land (punishable by up to 5 years of imprisonment), through precise deconstruction of the evidence chain and legal characterisation analysis, she successively overturned the appraisal reports and mining permit data four times, and leveraged judicial policies to ultimately secure a reduction from two charges to one, conversion of a custodial sentence to a suspended sentence, and a reduction of tens of millions of yuan in fines for the client.

False VAT Invoicing and False Invoicing

In several cases, including a listed company, a construction enterprise's legal representative, a technology company's legal representative, a trading company's legal representative, and a mining company's legal representative suspected of false VAT invoicing or false invoicing, she respectively achieved case dismissals by the public security authorities after signing of plea and sentencing agreements, non-prosecution decisions, suspended sentences, conversion to suspended sentences upon intervention at the second-instance stage, sentences equivalent to time served, and sentences significantly lower than those in comparable cases.

Fraud and Contract Fraud

In cases including a financial company's legal representative suspected of fraud (which was shortlisted for the "Top Ten National Classic Innocence Defence Cases" of that year), a technology company director suspected of fraud, a mining company's legal representative suspected of contract fraud, a leading official's child suspected of fraud, and a private entrepreneur suspected of fraud, she respectively achieved withdrawal of the indictment by the procuratorate after retrial upon remand by the second-instance court, re-characterisation as the offence of illegal business operations, non-prosecution on the contract fraud charge, reduction from 10 years to a suspended sentence, and release on bail pending trial after a sentencing recommendation of 19 years was made by the procuratorate.

Illegal Fund-Raising and Fund-Raising Fraud

She has handled over 20 cases of illegal fund-raising, achieving favourable results including non-prosecution, exemption from criminal punishment, re-characterisation of a principal offender as an accessory, and relatively lenient sentences.

Embezzlement

In cases including a private equity fund manager suspected of embezzlement (involving RMB 198 million), a regional head of a top 100 enterprise suspected of embezzlement (involving over RMB 1.5 million), an insurance company general manager suspected of embezzlement (involving over RMB 100 million), and a senior executive of a well-known internet company suspected of embezzlement, she respectively secured re-characterisation to misappropriation of funds with release on the same day of judgment, suspended sentences, and case dismissals by the public security authorities.

Insider Trading and Failure to Disclose Material Information

In cases involving a mining group's legal representative, a Fortune 500 company's legal representative, a family business's actual controller, a listed company's legal representative, an investment company's actual controller, and a private equity fund manager suspected of insider trading, as well as a listed company's legal representative suspected of failure to disclose material information, she achieved successes including release on bail pending trial after arrest, re-characterisation from individual to unit crime, reduction of sentencing recommendation from 5+ years to 3 years or less with a suspended sentence, non-prosecution, re-characterisation of a principal offender as an accessory, and re-acknowledgment of voluntary surrender and meritorious contributions.

Misappropriation of Trade Secrets

In a case involving a technology company's legal representative suspected of misappropriation of trade secrets, she successfully achieved a case dismissal.

Illegal Business Operations

In cases involving an executive of an exchange member unit, a director of a top-tier hospital, a renowned traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, and an employee of a technology company suspected of illegal business operations, she respectively achieved reduction of the criminal amount from RMB 800 million to RMB 3 million, sentences equivalent to time served, case dismissals, non-prosecution decisions, and reduction from 5+ years to a suspended sentence.

Smuggling

In cases involving a garment trading group, a well-known cashmere enterprise, a pre-IPO company suspected of smuggling, and a major second-instance mining chip smuggling case, she successfully achieved the separation of criminal risks for the enterprise (re-characterisation from unit crime to individual crime), re-characterisation of principal offenders as accessories, and substantial sentence reductions at the second-instance stage.

Copyright Infringement

In a case involving a printing enterprise suspected of copyright infringement, where custodial sentences were imposed in similar cases with comparable amounts and circumstances, she successfully secured non-prosecution and suspended sentence results for all individuals involved.

Unauthorised Intrusion into Computer Information Systems

In a case involving a technology platform company's technical director suspected of unauthorised intrusion into a computer information system, she successfully achieved a case dismissal.

Listed Company's Actual Controller with Multiple Charges

In a case where a listed company's chairman was charged with seven offences (fraud, breach of fiduciary duty harming the interests of the listed company, failure to disclose material information, loan fraud, embezzlement, contract fraud, and fraudulent purchase of foreign exchange), she served as defence counsel at the second-instance stage. Despite the client having been sentenced to life imprisonment at first instance, she successfully secured a remand for retrial.

Criminal Enforcement Supervision

She served as the agent at the enforcement stage for Mr. Zhang's case, which was listed as one of six typical "paper imprisonment" cases in the locality, all five of which had resulted in re-imprisonment. After the people's court issued a re-imprisonment order, she successfully had the order revoked, saving the client from 4 years and 7 months of incarceration.

Corporate Compliance Projects

For a mining company, a top 100 private enterprise, a chemical group (loan-related compliance), an aerospace materials group, and a listed company (comprehensive compliance), she respectively built compliance systems, successfully resolving criminal risks including fraudulent loan acquisition, loan fraud, embezzlement, misappropriation of funds, and false invoicing for the enterprises and their actual controllers, and provided comprehensive risk assessments and compliance services for the companies.

Property Seizure and Disposal

In a duty-related crime case involving a state-owned enterprise's legal representative, she served as the litigation agent for a private enterprise and successfully recovered over RMB 60 million in assets for the client during the investigation stage after they had been frozen by a provincial supervisory commission. In a group suspected of fund-raising fraud, she served as the litigation agent for a private enterprise and successfully had the freezing order on the enterprise's accounts lifted during the review and prosecution stage.

Criminal Reporting and Complaints

She has represented an insurance company, a mining group, a real estate group, and a mining investment company in filing reports and complaints against individuals suspected of fraud, contract fraud, smuggling, embezzlement, forgery of official seals, concealment and intentional destruction of accounting documents and records, embezzlement, bribery, acceptance of bribes, and intentional homicide causing death, successfully achieving case filing, addition of criminal suspects, and addition of charges.

Chinese (Mandarin), English

• Chaoyang District Lawyers' Representative Conference, Lawyer Representative

• Member of the Legal Expert Database for Legal Daily, CCTV, and others

• Practical mentor at China University of Political Science and Law

Master of Laws, Minzu University of China

Honor

• 2026 LEGALBAND China Top Lawyers: White-collar and Commercial Crime

• 2026 ALB China Law Annual Young Lawyer Award

• 2026 "Chambers Global Legal Guide: Dispute Resolution Litigation"

• 2026 "Chambers Greater China Guide: Dispute Resolution and Litigation"

• 2026 Legal500 Greater China Ranking - Dispute Resolution: Litigation

• 2025 Legal500 First "China Elite - Commercial Dispute List"

• 2025 "Chambers Global Legal Guide: Dispute Resolution and Litigation"

• 2025 "Chambers Greater China Guide: Dispute Resolution and Litigation"

• 2025 "LEGALBAND Elite List: Top 20 Dispute Resolution Lawyers"

• 2025 "Business Law Journal: Rising Stars in Lawyers"

• 2025 "GRCD China Female Lawyer of the Year"

• 2024 "LEGAL 500" Recommended Lawyer of the Year

• 2024 "GRCD China Client's Preferred Compliance Lawyer: Criminal" Award

• 2024 "GRCD China Annual Young Compliance Lawyer" Award

• The cases he handled were selected as one of the top ten classic innocent defense cases nationwide

• Ten outstanding criminal defense lawyers from China University of Political Science and Law

Publications

• Published multiple professional articles in core journals such as People's Procuratorate and at major academic seminars, including: "An Analysis of Issues Concerning the Forfeiture of Money Involved in Cases" (published in People's Procuratorate, Issue No. 9, 2025); "Improving Inspection and Supervision of Medical Parole to Prevent 'Paper Imprisonment'" (published in People's Procuratorate, Issue No. 877, 2022); "Corporate Criminal Risk Prevention and Control Guidelines" (published in China Business Law Journal, Volume 16, Issue 8, September 2025); "Criminal Governance and Equal Protection of Internal Corruption in Private Enterprises — From the Perspective of Criminal Law Amendment (XII)" (included in the proceedings of the 3rd "Fada Forum on Crime Governance"); and "Research on the Protection of Property Rights of Third Parties in the Context of Disposal of Criminal Case-Related Property" (included in the proceedings of the 2025 Annual Academic Conference of the Criminal Enforcement Law Research Committee of the China Law Society, where it received an award).

• Draftsperson of the "Evaluation Standards for the Effectiveness of Compliance Management Systems for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises" (Group Standard).

• Developed a series of courses including "Criminal Risk Warnings and Prevention for Legal Practitioners" and "General Professional Course for Legal Practitioners — Criminal Law Section," which have been designated as mandatory courses by bar associations in multiple provinces, and has been awarded the title of "Outstanding Instructor" by these associations.

• Contributed to the writing of books including "Application Guidelines for the Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Compliance Management Systems for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises" (Law Press, published 2023) and "Securities Market Administrative Supervision and Risk Prevention" (Social Sciences Academic Press, published 2021).

• As a member of the expert pool of official media outlets including China Central Television, Legal Daily, and Xinhua News Agency, has repeatedly provided professional opinions on relevant legal issues.