When enterprises simultaneously face significant disputes, regulatory investigations, and compliance risks, legal expertise in a single domain is often insufficient to comprehensively resolve the issues. Lawyers must not only accurately grasp the transaction structures involved and the pathways for dispute resolution, but also precisely assess regulatory logic, formulating feasible compliance solutions aligned with commercial objectives based on risk assessments.
Recently,Attorney Su Zitao has officially joined Mankun Law Firm.Attorney Su has long specialized in financial dispute resolution, corporate compliance, and regulatory response, while continuously studying domestic and foreign regulatory regimes in the Web3 and digital assets sectors. His addition will further enhance Mankun’s synergistic capabilities between traditional financial legal services and emerging digital assets legal services.
Attorney Profile
Attorney Su Zitao graduated from China University of Political Science and Law, obtaining a Bachelor of Laws and a Master of Laws. He previously accumulated over five years of professional experience at leading domestic law firms.
Attorney Su specializes in financial dispute resolution, corporate compliance, and regulatory response. He has long provided legal services to listed companies, securities firms, accounting firms, large banks, investment institutions, and startups. He has participated in handling numerous major and complex financial disputes, securities regulatory cases, and corporate compliance projects, accumulating extensive frontline practical experience and developing effective solutions in assisting clients with resolving significant and complex disputes, addressing intricate legal needs, and navigating cutting-edge regulatory and compliance issues.
Beyond traditional financial business, Attorney Su closely monitors the development of the Web3 and digital assets industries, conducting in-depth research into domestic and international regulatory frameworks, digital asset investment and trading, and project compliance issues. Leveraging his rich practical legal experience in traditional finance, Attorney Su provides clients with systematic legal service solutions covering transaction structuring, regulatory compliance, dispute prevention and response, and internal corporate governance.
Practice Areas
- Dispute Resolution
- Corporate Compliance and Regulatory Response
Core Strengths
I. Extensive and diverse experience in handling dispute resolution cases in the field of financial disputes
Attorney Su has participated in handling numerous major and complex financial dispute cases. The types of cases involve disputes in areas such as private equity fund investments, asset management plan investments, securities misrepresentation, audit torts by accounting firms, equity investments and buybacks, and harm to the interests of companies and shareholders. The clients served include listed companies, securities companies, accounting firms, investment institutions, and large banks.
Based on extensive and diverse experience in handling financial disputes, Attorney Su is able to formulate and implement corresponding litigation, arbitration, negotiation, and risk response strategies aligned with clients’ commercial objectives. He is also capable of handling complex and difficult disputes arising from digital asset trading and investments and Web3 project collaborations, providing clients with dispute resolution services and legal support that combine practical financial expertise with industry knowledge of digital assets.
II. Frontline experience and capability in handling cases in the field of financial regulation
Attorney Su has participated in handling numerous administrative penalty hearing cases before the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), covering matters such as intermediaries’ failure to exercise due diligence, irregular trading by securities practitioners, and information disclosure violations by listed companies and their directors, supervisors, and senior management. Additionally, Attorney Su has served as permanent legal counsel to multiple listed companies, investment institutions, and state-owned enterprises. He has accumulated extensive frontline experience in identifying regulatory risks, responding to regulatory investigations, and implementing corporate compliance rectification, demonstrating a profound understanding and mastery of financial regulatory rules and standards for determining violations.
Combining his continuous research on Web3 and digital asset regulatory regimes, Attorney Su is able to provide legal services to project sponsors, service providers, investors, and other market participants, including business model assessments, regulatory risk analyses, compliance pathway design, and responses to risk events.
III. Extensive experience in building complex compliance systems and assessing compliance risks for enterprises and projects
Attorney Su has provided specialized compliance construction services to listed companies facing risks of financial crimes, assisting clients in reconstructing institutional frameworks and supporting mechanisms covering key areas such as internal compliance management, business management, and investor relations management. He has also represented listed companies in conducting specialized compliance inspections of their subsidiary securities companies and insurance companies, assisting relevant entities in identifying risks in operational management and internal controls, advancing compliance rectifications, and establishing continuous supervision and inspection mechanisms.
Drawing on cutting-edge experience in building corporate compliance systems, Attorney Su is able to conduct systematic assessments of compliance risks for client enterprises and projects from the perspectives of corporate governance, business operations, internal controls, and accountability. In light of clients’ specific business models, he provides legal solutions that balance regulatory requirements, risk control, and business development objectives.
Continuous Aggregation of Professional Expertise
The addition of Attorney Su Zitao will further strengthen Mankun Law Firm’s capabilities infinancial dispute resolution, corporate compliance and regulatory response, and digital asset legal servicesexpertise in these areas will also enable Mankun Law Firm to better address the complex legal issues arising from the interplay between traditional financial services and emerging Web3 businesses.
Looking ahead, Mankun Law Firm will continue to uphold its service philosophy of “China Depth, Global Breadth,” continuously attracting legal professionals who combine professional expertise, industry insight, and an international perspective. Focusing on new economy sectors such as artificial intelligence, fintech, the digital economy, and corporate globalization, we provide clients with legal services covering the entire corporate lifecycle.
Welcome Attorney Su Zitao to Mankun Law Firm!
