Yiwen DING
Shanghai Office
Senior Partner
Yiwen Ding holds a master’s degree in law from East China University of Political Science and Law. His practice focuses on corporate crisis management; regulatory and compliance matters in the healthcare and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sectors, particularly anti-unfair competition and advertising law; and criminal defense in white-collar and economic crime cases.
Mr. Ding has extensive experience advising pharmaceutical companies on legal issues arising from their day-to-day operations. Drawing on his experience in comparable matters and his knowledge of anti-unfair competition law, he helps clients refine their corporate policies, employment contracts and distribution agreements. Through meticulous analysis of evidence, he has also secured the withdrawal of administrative penalties against corporate clients at a number of administrative hearings, helping them resolve potentially serious corporate crises.
Mr. Ding has handled numerous criminal cases involving duty-related and other white-collar offenses. His methodical review of case files and evidence has helped clients obtain decisions not to prosecute, exemptions from criminal punishment and suspended sentences.
Professional Field
Selected Matters
- Represented several well-known pharmaceutical companies in administrative hearings concerning their proposed inclusion in the adverse-record system for commercial bribery in pharmaceutical procurement and sales, successfully preventing them from being listed.
- Advised a leading FMCG company on complaints and reports filed by professional consumer claimants, securing the closure of product-quality and advertising investigations or decisions not to impose administrative penalties by the competent market regulation authorities.
- Represented a well-known listed pharmaceutical company in an advertising investigation conducted by the Putuo District Administration for Market Regulation, following the filing of the case and designation of jurisdiction by the Shanghai municipal advertising authority, and secured the closure of the case.
- Represented a well-known food company in a product-quality investigation conducted by the Pudong New Area Administration for Market Regulation after its product failed a sample inspection by the former China Food and Drug Administration; secured a reduced penalty and the redaction of all sensitive information from the public notice.
- Secured a suspended sentence for a client in a smuggling case involving goods valued at more than RMB 4 million, and an exemption from criminal punishment for a client in a separate smuggling case involving goods valued at more than RMB 400,000.
- Obtained discretionary non-prosecution decisions for clients in minor criminal matters arising from drunk driving and neighborhood disputes.
- Represented the victim in a major fraud case solved by the Changning police following a ten-year manhunt, pursuing an ancillary civil claim in the criminal proceedings, and was interviewed by the television programme Case Focus (《案件聚焦》).
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