Cases involving Web3 and digital assets often concurrently implicate fund flows, network technologies, platform rules, on-chain transactions, and cross-regional investigative coordination. For clients, the crux of such cases lies not only in understanding statutory provisions but also in accurately assessing how investigative authorities identify transactional conduct, secure electronic evidence, trace fund flows, and distinguish between normal business operations, industry risks, and criminal offenses.
Recently,Attorney Liu Ying has officially joined Mankun Law FirmDrawing on ten years of frontline experience in economic crime investigation with public security organs, as well as practical expertise accumulated in internet platform security and the digital assets industry, Attorney Liu Ying’s arrival will further enhance Mankun Law Firm’s professional capabilities in criminal defense, initiating criminal complaints, corporate criminal risk prevention and control, and the handling of Web3-related criminal matters.
Attorney Profile
Attorney Liu Ying graduated from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law with a Master of Laws degree, possessing a multidisciplinary practical background spanning economic crime investigation with public security organs, internet platform security, and the Web3 digital assets industry.
Attorney Liu Ying served for ten years at the Economic Crime Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, where he was extensively involved in the frontline investigation and handling of economic crime cases. During his tenure, he was twice awarded Third-Class Merit individually and once awarded Second-Class Merit as part of a collective. He possesses solid expertise in criminal investigation and has a profound understanding of the investigative logic, evidentiary frameworks, fund tracing, and procedural workflows in economic crime cases.
Subsequently, Attorney Liu Ying served in the Security Department of Alibaba Group, where he primarily participated in the assessment, investigation, and referral of cases involving intellectual property infringement, cyber-enabled crimes, and illicit internet-based gray-and-black market activities. This role further enriched his practical experience in internet platform governance, electronic data analysis, identification of cybercrimes, and collaboration between enterprises and law enforcement agencies.
In 2020, Attorney Liu Ying joined Huobi Global as Assistant to the President, deeply engaging in matters related to the digital assets industry. He developed a systematic understanding of Web3 business models, crypto assets trading, platform operational risks, and the communication and handling of cryptocurrency-related cases, while accumulating experience in coordinating multi-jurisdictional, multi-level cases and managing associated risks.
Leveraging this background, Attorney Liu Ying is able to conduct comprehensive assessments of complex criminal cases from the perspectives of investigative authorities, internet platform risk control, and Web3 industry operations, thereby providing clients with more targeted and actionable legal solutions.
Practice Areas
- Criminal Defense: Economic crimes, cybercrimes, intellectual property crimes, corporate and enterprise operation-related crimes, as well as criminal cases involving virtual currency trading, digital asset projects, over-the-counter (OTC) trading, account freezes, and fund settlements.
- Criminal Complaints: Assisting clients in evidence organization, legal analysis, filing complaints, and case progression in relation to online fraud, embezzlement by employees, illegal acquisition of data, infringement of trade secrets, theft of digital assets, and other acts infringing upon the rights and interests of enterprises and individuals.
- Corporate Criminal Risk Prevention and Control: Identifying criminal risks related to corporate business models, fund flows, platform operations, channel partnerships, data processing, and employee conduct; assisting enterprises in establishing mechanisms for risk isolation, internal investigations, case response, and crisis management.
- Criminal Legal Services for Web3: Providing legal services including ex ante assessments, case response, defense representation, and risk disposal regarding criminal risks associated with digital asset trading, trading platform operations, over-the-counter (OTC) businesses, project investments, wallet and account management, on-chain fund flows, and cross-border operations.
Core Advantages
I. Ten Years of Frontline Experience in Economic Crime Investigation by Public Security Organs
Attorney Liu Ying has ten years of experience in economic crime investigation, having long participated in the analysis, investigation, and coordinated handling of major and complex economic crime cases. She possesses a deep understanding of the complete procedural workflow, from clue discovery and preliminary investigation analysis to case filing, evidence fixation, fund tracing, and transfer for prosecutorial review.
Unlike approaches based solely on statutory provisions, Attorney Liu Ying integrates the investigative logic of law enforcement agencies to anticipate key focal points, evidentiary weaknesses, and potential pathways for liability determination. By analyzing fund flows, information flows, business processes, and personnel division of labor, she helps clients reconstruct factual circumstances, clarify behavioral boundaries, and formulate more effective defense and response strategies.
II. Practical Experience in Internet Platform Security and Cases Involving Gray and Black Market Industries
During her tenure at the Alibaba Security Department, Attorney Liu Ying long participated in the analysis and transfer of cases involving intellectual property rights, cybercrimes, and internet gray and black market industries. She has extensive experience in internal risk control mechanisms of internet platforms, electronic data retention, identification of online behaviors, and the conversion of case clues.
This experience enables her not only to be familiar with evidentiary rules in traditional criminal cases but also to accurately understand internet business architectures, platform data logic, and technical behavioral patterns. In handling criminal cases involving online platforms, account systems, technical services, data requests, and online fund flows, Attorney Liu Ying effectively bridges legal facts and technical facts, thereby preventing adverse impacts on case judgments due to unclear business descriptions or misinterpretations of technical facts.
III. Deep Engagement in Web3 and Digital Asset Industry Practices
Since 2020, Attorney Liu Ying has been deeply engaged in work within the digital asset industry, possessing direct industry practical experience in trading platform operations, digital asset transfers, on-chain transactions, user account management, and Web3 project operations.
Unlike observers who merely examine the digital assets industry from the outside, Attorney Liu Ying is well versed in the actual business logic, organizational structures, and risk scenarios of Web3 projects, enabling him to accurately delineate the boundaries between ordinary commercial conduct, compliance risks, and criminal risks. In crypto-related criminal cases, he conducts multi-dimensional analyses of the facts by integrating on-chain transaction records, centralized platform account data, fiat fund flows, and project business materials, thereby providing project sponsors, platforms, and practitioners with legal support that is closely aligned with industry realities.
IV. Tripartite Perspectives Encompassing Law Enforcement Investigations, Platforms, and the Industry
Many disputes in criminal cases are not purely questions of legal application; rather, they stem from divergent understandings of business facts and transactional conduct among different stakeholders. Particularly in the Web3 sector, activities that project sponsors regard as technical services, marketing promotions, or ordinary transactions may be re-examined under a different factual framework during case handling.
Attorney Liu Ying brings practical experience spanning law enforcement investigations, internet platforms, and the digital assets industry. He can comprehensively assess case risks from three dimensions: how investigating authorities interpret the case, how platforms retain and present data, and how industry participants conduct their businesses. This composite expertise facilitates earlier identification of key issues in cases and enables the formulation of more comprehensive solutions in criminal defense, filing of complaints and reports, and corporate crisis management.
Continued Accumulation of Professional Strength
The addition of Attorney Liu Ying will further strengthen Mankun Law Firm’s professional capabilities incriminal defense, criminal complaints and reports, corporate criminal risk prevention and control, and Web3-related criminal legal servicesand will help Mankun better handle complex cases where digital assets, internet technologies, and criminal law intersect.
Going forward, Mankun will continue to uphold its service philosophy of “China Depth, Global Breadth,” continuously attracting legal talent with professional expertise, industry insight, and practical experience. Focusing on new-economy sectors such as artificial intelligence, tech finance, the digital economy, and corporate globalization, Mankun will provide enterprises, project sponsors, and practitioners with legal services covering the full lifecycle of business development and risk management.
Welcome Attorney Liu Ying to Mankun!
