Practice Areas

Wei Song focuses his practice on  risk management and corporation compliance for innovative businesses and products, construction of cybercrime, economic and financial crimes prevention systems, criminal defense and accusation, as well as Anti-unfair competition litigation. Wei Song has nearly 20 years' legal practice experience in economic and financial crimes prosecution. He has participated in Chinese legislation on economic and securities crimes, cyber security and data protection. His legislative suggestions have been adopted by National People's Congress (NPC), the Supreme People's Court and Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC). During his tenure as legal counsel in Ant Financial Company, he established criminal compliance and prevention program for Ant Financial Company which covered all business product lines and the collection and use of data. This compliance and prevention program also helped the company to avoid criminal legal risks. In recent years, Wei Song has been invited many times to lecture about criminal and criminal procedure law for the judiciary and enforcement agencies. He has taught in more than 10 workshops for the judicial officers organized by the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the inspection team of the China Securities Regulatory Commission and the economic crime investigators from the provincial Public Security Departments. He has been also invited to give lectures at annual conferences and industry forums organized by the China Securities Law Society, China Criminal Law Society, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Renmin University of China and other institutions.

Work Experience

Wei Song joined Global Law Office in 2021. Prior to joining us, Wei Song was responsible for Criminal Compliance, Dispute Resolution and legislation feedback in the legal departments of Alibaba Group and Ant Financial Company for five years, and served as the head of the Compliance Department in a fintech subsidiary of China Construction Bank (CCB).

Admission

Admitted in the PRC (2006)

Education

China University of Political Science and Law, Bachelor of Law & Master of Law (2002)

Publications
  • “Discussion On the Prosecutions of Cybercrime” Volume I (Associate Editor)
  • “Identification and Handling of Commercial Crimes” (Chapter of Securities Crimes)
  • “Compilation of Law and Cases of Internet Finance” (Chapter of Internet Payment)
  • “The Rise of Robo-advisor: A Study on Legal Issues” (Planner and Co-author)
Associations and Memberships
  • Specialist of Criminal Compliance Think Tank of Beijing Lawyers Association
  • Secretary General of the Center of Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Security Research of China National Institute for SCO International Exchange and Judicial Cooperation
  • Researcher & Off-campus tutor of Center of Fintech and Cybersecurity of Renmin University of China
  • Researcher of the Hangzhou Yangtze River Delta Institute of Big Data Research
  • Director of the Institute of Securities Law in China Law Society
  • Director of the Institute of Network and Data Governance Law Research in Shanghai Law Society
Languages
Chinese,English