Areas of practice
Huang Huang specialises in criminal litigation, criminal compliance, international criminal judicial assistance, and corporate legal risk management.
Ms. Huang also focuses on corporate criminal and administrative investigation cooperation, corporate compliance management, and criminal risk control for senior corporate executives. She has extensive practical experience in assisting enterprises in building corporate compliance systems, conducting internal compliance investigations, managing criminal compliance, and responding to criminal investigations. She has advised a number of corporations and entrepreneurs on such matters.
Ms. Huang excels in high-quality criminal law practices in niche markets, bringing in extensive hands-on experience in areas such as securities crimes, major bribery and corruption crimes, financial crimes, environmental crimes, and intellectual property crimes. She has particularly in-depth research and practical experience in securities crimes. As a main contributor, she has participated in the compilation of the King & Wood Mallesons’ annual research: Report on Criminal Offences of Listed Companies for years. As the lead attorney, she led her team in authoring the Corporate Criminal Law Compliance and Crime Prevention for Public Companies.
Her work highlights include:
(1) Criminal defence:
- advised on a bribery case involving a GSK executive bribing non-state officials
- advised on a market manipulation case involving the head of an investment company
- advised on a case involving the actual controller of a listed company for illegal disclosure or non-disclosure of important information
- advised on an insider trading case involving the chairman of a state-owned enterprise
(2) Criminal reporting and representation of victims in litigation:
- advised on a case involving a state-owned energy company that was allegedly sold substandard products and involved in contract fraud in cross-border trade
- advised on a contract fraud case involving an international bank financing for commodity trading in Qingdao Port
- advised on a large state-owned petrochemical company’s criminal reporting and investigation of infringement of its commercial secrets
(3) Criminal compliance management:
- Provided overall criminal compliance legal services to a listed company
(4) Criminal compliance investigation:
- Conducted environmental pollution criminal risk assessments and provided remediation plans for a well-known international fertilizer company
(5) International criminal judicial assistance:
- Assisted a state-owned bank in responding to a criminal investigation into overseas anti-money laundering
(6) Response to investigation and crisis management:
- Assisted in comprehensive crisis response to the “12.1” major fire accident in Tianjin
(7) Criminal and civil crossover proceedings:
- advised on a criminal and civil crossover case regarding a large fund company accused of illegally absorbing public deposits
- advised on a criminal and civil crossover case concerning the bill risk of a large financial institution
- advised on a contract fraud case involving an asset management dispute of a rural credit cooperative
Ms. Huang is currently an executive director of the Beijing Criminology Research Association.
Work experience
Ms. Huang joined King & Wood Mallesons in 2014.
She obtained her LL.B. and a Master’s degree in Criminal Law from China University of Political Science and Law.
Her working languages are Chinese and English.
