Liming Ye

Practice Areas

Fund and asset management | financial leasing and commercial factoring | dispute resolution | criminal business involving financial and commercial crimes| companies and investments | capital market.

Career

Senior Partner

Professional Memberships

• Year| Admission

• 2009 | Lawyer Practice Qualification Certificate;

• 2016 | Fund Practicing Qualification Certificate;

• 2016 | Independent Director Qualification Certificate of Listed Company;

• 2020 | Military secret related business service qualification certificate.

Publications

• Year|Book name|Publishing house

• 2011| Legal Risks in Enterprise Strategic Financing | Economics and Law(2011,Issue 4);

• 2013| Common Legal Issues in the Establishment and Operation of Limited Partnership Private Equity Funds | Economic and Law(2013, Issue 2);

• 2017 | Analysis of the Key Points of the Interim Regulations on the Management of Private Investment Funds | International Financial News (2017, Issue 3);

• 2017 | Detailed Interpretation of the Guidance on Regulating the Asset Management Business of Financial Institutions | International Financial Journal(2017, Issue 8);

• 2018 | Interpretation of the Key Points of the Notice on Registration of Private Fund Managers of China Securities Investment Fund Industry Association | International Financial News (Issue 1, 2019);

• 2019 | Interpretation of the Jiumin Summary from the perspective of protecting the rights and interests of financial consumers;

• 2020 | On Whether Public Health Emergencies Caused by novel coronavirus Pneumonia Are Exemptions from Contract Performance;

• 2020 | Analysis of Legal Issues Related to Private Fund-Legal Consequences and Countermeasures for the Incompleteness of the "Performance Betting Clause" and "Listing Commitment Clause" under the Equity Investment Agreement during the Epidemic Period;

• 2020| Analysis of Legal Issues Related to Private Equity Fund-Risks and Countermeasures of Private Equity Fund Managers Caused by the COVID-19;

• 2020 | Analysis of Legal Issues Related to Private Equity Fund-Criminal Risks Faced by Managers in the Overall Recession of Private Equity Management Industry and Their Prevention;

• 2020 | On How to Regulate the Issuance, Listing and Trading of Securities Outside China under the Current Legal System of China from the Ruixing Event (Democracy and Legal System, 2020, Issue 16);

• 2020 | Talking about the Fidelity Obligations of Financial Institutions in Financial Derivatives Transactions from the Bank of China's "Crude Oil Treasure" Event;

• 2020| Comment on Haotian Case: Jedi Reversed Non performing Assets Disposal and Financial Loan Guarantee Contract Dispute;

• 2020| Research on Punishment and Prevention of Stakeholder Financial Crimes-Research on Several Criminal and Legal Issues of Private Placement Fund;

• 2021 | On the Elements of Securities Crimes of "Insider Trading" and the Difficulties and Defense Scheme of Handling Similar Cases (l)- "Crime of Insider Trading and Disclosure of Insider Information";

• 2021| On the Elements of Securities Crimes of "Insider Trading" and the Difficulties and Defense Scheme of Handling Similar Cases (Il)- "Crime of Trading with Unpublished Information";

• 2022| On Legal Risks in Cooperative Cross border Mergers and Acquisitions and Their Prevention-Feeling from the fact that Lan Shili, a billionaire in the "Red List", was found guilty of contract fraud;

• 2022| The Standardized Practice of Lawyers Seen from the "Red List" Regal Lan Shili's Contract Fraud Convicted of No Crime;

• 2022| Interpretation of Legal Practice and Frontier Issues of Futures and Derivatives Compliance (Law Press).

• 2023 | Securities Crime Defense Logic (1st Edition) (Law Press China)

• 2023 | Twelve Lectures on Banking Business Crimes (Law Press China)

• 2024 | Futures and Derivatives Compliance Legal Practice and Cutting-Edge Issues Interpretation (Law Press China)

• 2024 | Research on the Application of Law Concerning the Crime of Insider Trading and Divulging Inside Information (Law Press China)

• 2024 | Securities Crime Defense Logic (2nd Edition) (Law Press China)

Personal

Attorney Liming Ye

Senior Partner, Hylands Law Firm Shanghai Sub-Commission Leading Partner, Procedural Law Group of the National Criminal Practice Committee, Hylands Law Firm

Attorney Ye holds a Master of Laws degree and a Master of Business Administration degree. He also possesses professional qualifications including the Fund Practitioner Qualification, the Securities Practitioner Qualification, and the Independent Director Qualification for Listed Companies.

Currently, Attorney Ye also serves in the following capacities:

• Deputy Director, Lawyers Committee, Shanghai Municipal Committee of the China National Democratic Construction Association

• Member, Criminal Compliance Professional Committee, Shanghai Bar Association

• Secretary-General, Faculty Class of the "Yangtze River Delta 300 Criminal Defense Talents Project"

• Member, Criminal Law Research Association, Shanghai Law Society

• Expert Mediator, Shanghai Capital Market People's Mediation Committee

• Member of the Expert Group for Legal Aid Services of "Famous and Excellent Lawyers", Pudong New Area Bureau of Justice, Shanghai

• Member, Compliance Committee, China Association of Small and Medium Enterprises; Drafting Member of Standards for Compliance Evaluation and Certification of Small and Medium Enterprises and Application Guidelines for the Certification Standards

• Part-time Master’s Supervisor, Koguan School of Law, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Distinguished Research Fellow, Compliance Research Center; Distinguished Research Fellow, Securities Crime Research Center

• Part-time Master’s Supervisor, School of Law, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

• Part-time Master’s Supervisor, School of Law, East China University of Science and Technology

Over the years, with his solid legal theoretical foundation, sophisticated professional skills, and a responsible work attitude, Attorney Ye has earned numerous positive reviews from clients.

His core areas of expertise include commercial dispute resolution, as well as criminal practice, criminal-civil cross-disciplinary practice and compliance practice involving finance and capital markets. He has handled many high-profile major cases in the capital and financial sectors.

Languages Spoken

Chinese English Japanese