Chengxu Wu

Mr. Wu Chengxu has published over ten academic papers in theoretical journals such as "People's Procuratorate" and "Western Law Review." He has also published more than twenty practical legal articles and commentaries on legal public platforms.

Since 2020, Mr. Wu has been the chief editor of the electronic monthly "Financial Criminal Information," which has received wide acclaim from the legal community, political and legal circles, and academic institutions. He is the editor-in-chief of the criminal law case study textbook "Criminal Law Case Study" (published by People's Court Press) and a contributor to "Frontiers of Economic Crime Theory and Hot Topics in Practice" (published by Fudan University Press).

Mr. Wu specializes in providing comprehensive legal services for criminal defense in financial crimes, criminal compliance, and cases involving both civil and criminal matters. He offers legal services in administrative and criminal compliance, and defense risk management to multiple listed companies, prospective listing companies, securities firms, banks, and other financial institutions in fields such as energy, gaming, education, technology, and real estate. With years of practice, he has handled hundreds of criminal cases, many of which have achieved favorable outcomes such as case dismissals, non-prosecutions, probation, and recovering economic losses for clients.

Doctor of Laws, Fudan University Law School
Master of Laws, Fudan University Law School

Senior Partner and Head of the Criminal Department, Ronze Partners Shanghai
Member of the China Law Society
Selected as one of the Top 100 Outstanding Criminal Defense Lawyers in the Yangtze River Delta
Member of the Shanghai Bar Association’s Research Committee on Criminal Law and Criminal Defense
Mediation Expert and Gold Medal Evaluation Expert at the Shanghai Financial Consumer Dispute Mediation Center
Vice President of the Shanghai Yiwu Chamber of Commerce and Executive Vice President of the Youth Federation
Practical Mentor at multiple universities including Fudan University Law School and East China University of Science and Technology

Criminal Defense

Security Crimes

● Represented the actual controller of a listed company in a case of breach of trust damaging the interests of the company, resulting in a statutory non-prosecution (involving 40 million RMB); this case was selected as a typical case of legal services by the Ministry of Justice.

● Represented the actual controller of a listed company in a case of illegal disclosure and non-disclosure of important information (involving over 7 billion RMB), resulting in a relative non-prosecution.

● Represented the actual controller of a listed company in a case of financial fraud involving illegal disclosure and non-disclosure of important information (involving over 2 billion RMB), resulting in a suspended sentence.

● Represented the actual controller of a listed company in a case of fraudulent stock issuance, illegal disclosure, and non-disclosure of important information (involving over 3 billion RMB).
Illegal Fundraising Crimes

● Provided a defense for a senior executive of Shanghai Kuailu Group in a fundraising fraud case, resulting in a lighter sentence (involving over 14.5 billion RMB).

● Represented a regional head of Shanlin in an illegal public deposit-taking case, resulting in a suspended sentence.

Fraud Crimes

● Represented Yu and his actual control company in a contract fraud case, the largest fraud case in the history of a prefecture-level city in a certain province (involving over 3.5 billion RMB), reducing the sentence from life imprisonment to a fixed-term imprisonment.

● Defended a shareholder of a family business accused of fraud, resulting in the withdrawal of the case by the public security organ (involving several billion RMB).

● Defended Wang in a fraud accusation (involving several million RMB), resulting in case withdrawal by the public security organ.

● Defended a private entrepreneur in a criminal case involving multiple charges, resulting in a not-guilty verdict for all charges, each sentenced at the statutory minimum.

● Represented the actual controller of a private equity firm in a case of misappropriation of funds, successfully reducing the disputed amount by nearly 100 million RMB.

● Involved in a virtual futures trading fraud case, successfully applied for police witness testimony and exclusion of corresponding illegal evidence.

● Represented a project company accused of falsifying state documents to defraud private equity investors, leading to the exclusion of false confessions.

Other Crimes

● Defended He in an illegal loan issuance case, resulting in a suspended sentence despite the prosecutor's recommendation for imprisonment (involving nearly 100 million RMB).

● Defended Xu in an illegal gambling case, resulting in a suspended sentence.

● Defended Deng in a bribery case, resulting in a suspended sentence.

● Successfully secured the withdrawal of a false litigation case against Ke by the police.

● Achieved non-prosecution in a case involving Sun accused of embezzlement, illegal business operations, and concealing criminal proceeds.

● Secured the withdrawal of a case involving Hu accused of embezzlement by the public security organ.

● Defended a data company in a case of infringing citizens' personal information, removing "involvement in criminal gang" charges and achieving statutory non-prosecution.

● Achieved relative non-prosecution for Chen in an infringement of personal information case.

● Secured the withdrawal of a drug trafficking case against Xu by the public security organ.

● Achieved non-prosecution for Huang due to insufficient evidence in a case of distributing pornographic materials.

● Achieved conditional non-prosecution for Tu in a juvenile provocation case.

● Defended a driver in a super factory district in a public safety endangerment case (resulting in two deaths), leading to a suspended death sentence despite the prosecutor's recommendation for immediate execution.

Criminal Complaints/Representation

● Represented nearly a thousand investors in the Fuxing Group fundraising fraud case (involving 46 billion RMB).

● Represented an investor in a private equity firm accusing breach of fiduciary duty in entrusted property use (the first case in a municipal district).

● Represented a network company in an illegal acquisition of computer information system data case (supervised by the municipal bureau).

● Represented a company in a case accusing an employee of job embezzlement involving private orders.

● Provided a company with an anti-fraud investigation concerning trade secret infringement.