Yan Pan specializes in criminal defense involving enterprises, criminal compliance for commercial crimes, and corporate compliance.. She brings to her practice over 20 years of experience in judicial organs and legal practice, she is a former National Procuratorial Expert and National Outstanding Public Prosecutor. Since commencing her legal practice as a lawyer, she has focused on high-profile and complex criminal defense and corporate criminal compliance system construction, and is proficient in handling duty-related crimes, economic crimes, gang-related crimes, corporate compliance rectification and compliance non-prosecution cases.

Publications

• Practical Guide to Corporate Criminal Compliance in Public Health Emergencies (Professional Monograph)
• Localization Exploration of Lawyers’ Criminal Compliance Services (in Selected Papers on Compliance Theory and Practice for Chinese Enterprises “Going Global”)
• Reflections on Criminal Compliance Services for Corporate Public Officials (Second Prize, Western Lawyers Development Forum)
• Identification of Ticket Scalping and Subjective Intent (People’s Procuratorate)
• Clarification of Procuratorial Supervision over Court Transcripts (People’s Procuratorate)
• Research on the Application of the Crime of Assisting in Cybercrime Activities (Zhucheng Trial)
• Dilemmas and Solutions for Recovering Unlawful Gains in Bribery Cases (Award-Winning Paper, Jiaxiu Forum)

Professional Activities

• Presided over the key project of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate Research on Prosecutorial Discretion in the System of Plea Bargaining
• Drafted a number of normative documents of Guizhou procuratorial organs on exclusion of illegal evidence, criminal reconciliation and presumption of innocence in public prosecution
• Delivered special training on criminal compliance, evidence review and integrity risk prevention for China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation Tenth Academy, Shandong Energy Group, Guizhou Provincial State Security Department, Guiyang Public Security Bureau and other entities
• Conducted special training on involved enterprise compliance and National Security Law for Hainan Provincial Department of Justice, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Guizhou Branch and other entities

Representative Matters

Criminal Defense:

• Bribery case of X (former First-Class Inspector of Guizhou Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision);
• Case of L (former Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Dushan County) involving harboring and conniving at gang-related crimes and bribery;
• Bribery case of Z (former Vice President of a Provincial Design and Research Institute); Embezzlement, bribery and corruption case of R (former Chairman of a State-Owned Platform Company);
• Multiple gang-related crime cases.

Corporate Compliance:

• Compliance rectification of a green food development company suspected of fraud (third-party supervisor);
• Compliance rectification of a coal mine and electric power engineering company suspected of falsely issuing special VAT invoices (compliance counsel);
• Special legal services for internal control and compliance of a holding group and industrial investment group;
• Handling of multiple enterprise compliance non-prosecution cases and formulation of industry compliance guidelines.