Chen ZhengSenior Partner

Chen Zheng graduated from Fudan University and serves as Director of the Corporate Anti-Fraud and Compliance Committee of Dehehantong Law Offices. He also serves as legal counsel to Kangjian Sub-district, Xuhui District, Shanghai, and as an officer of the Criminal Procedure and Criminal Defense Committee of the Shanghai Bar Association. He focuses on criminal defense, criminal complaints and corporate criminal-risk prevention.

Chen Zheng has extensive experience in duty-related and commercial crime matters. His representative work includes Jiangsu's first case involving a private enterprise's illegal operation of a competing business, a high-profile abuse-of-authority case involving personnel of a state-owned company under higher-level jurisdiction, the largest special VAT invoice fraud case in a province that year, a Ministry of Public Security-supervised major financial-industry commercial bribery case, and nationally influential cases reported by CCTV legal programs and Shanghai Oriental 110.

He has a strong theoretical and practical foundation in criminal law and has published dozens of articles on professional platforms covering duty-related crimes, acquittal defense, corporate anti-fraud investigations, securities and financial crime, and anti-corruption in the healthcare sector.

In corporate anti-fraud investigations, his team has developed a comprehensive system covering electronic-data analysis, related-party screening, evidence preservation and personnel interviews. The team has helped multiple enterprises initiate criminal investigations and recover losses. In corporate criminal-risk control, he has also helped entrepreneurs resolve risks arising from special VAT invoice fraud, refusal to enforce judgments and duty-related crime matters.

Selected Criminal Defense Matters

Defended an executive of a central state-owned enterprise in a duty-related crime case: reduced a ten-year sentencing recommendation to a five-year first-instance sentence; on appeal, the provincial high court adopted all defense arguments, vacated the original judgment and imposed a two-and-a-half-year sentence.

Defended an executive of a leading securities firm in a non-state-functionary bribery case; persuaded the procuratorate not to approve arrest and obtained a suspended sentence.

Defended an executive of a local state-owned platform company in an embezzlement and bribery case; obtained and submitted substantial new evidence, changed the amount attributed to the client and secured significant mitigation.

Defended a financial institution executive in an insider-trading case and obtained a suspended sentence.

Defended the legal representative of a well-known real estate company in a case involving trading in official state documents; the procuratorate remanded the case for further investigation and the matter was ultimately dismissed.

Defended a client in a refusal-to-enforce-judgment case; the procuratorate declined arrest due to insufficient evidence and the client was ultimately cleared.

Defended Mr. Zhang in a fraud case and overcame three major evidentiary obstacles to change the legal characterization and secure an acquittal outcome.

Defended a client in a major annual false-invoice case in Jiangsu; obtained bail and ultimately a non-conviction outcome.

Defended a principal suspect in Shandong's largest illegal public-deposit case involving hundreds of billions of yuan; substantially reduced the criminal amount and secured a sentence equivalent to time served.

Defended the first defendant in the nationally reported “Shanghai Ten-Million-Yuan Property Theft Case” featured by CCTV and Oriental 110; more than half of the defendants ultimately received suspended sentences.

Corporate Anti-Fraud Investigations and Criminal Complaints

Advised a foreign-trade enterprise on an anti-fraud investigation and criminal complaint, successfully initiating Jiangsu's first case involving a private enterprise's illegal operation of a competing business, establishing evidentiary and loss-calculation standards and recovering losses.

Conducted an anti-fraud investigation for a leading multinational bathroom-products group. Starting from a single whistleblower letter, the team used data-analysis systems to identify financial leads, pinpoint key bribery-related distributors and achieve the client's objective through evidence collection and interviews.

Advised a well-known film and television investment company on an anti-fraud investigation and criminal complaint, successfully initiating an occupational embezzlement investigation and helping recover tens of millions of yuan. The team reviewed nearly ten years of accounts, identified five related companies and two key individuals, and mapped the asset-transfer chain.

Advised a sports and culture group on an anti-fraud investigation and criminal complaint, successfully initiating a contract-fraud investigation and recovering 80% of the loss. The team identified the suspect's fabricated status, obtained key evidence through criminal investigation records and prevailed in related civil litigation.

Corporate Criminal-Risk Control

Advised the general manager and finance director of a Ningbo energy group on criminal-risk control for a financing-trade project; identified operational red lines through in-depth due diligence and successfully resolved the risks.

Advised the sales director of a listed cosmetics company after a preliminary police inquiry had begun; conducted interviews, assisted with evidence collection and secured dismissal of the case.

Advised the legal representative of a healthcare enterprise facing potential occupational embezzlement exposure; helped organize and preserve evidence and ultimately resolved the criminal risk.

2021- Present: Senior Partner at Dehehantong Shanghai Law Office

Director of the Anti-Fraud and Compliance Business Committee of Dehe Shanghai Enterprise

Master of Laws from Fudan University Bachelor of Arts, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences