Mr Wang Jianlin has 20 years of experience in customs law practice, and his main practice areas are customs compliance, dispute resolution, and criminal defense. Before joining Jingtian & Gongcheng, Mr Wang worked in customs for a long time. Mr Wang has provided annual or specialised legal services to renowned domestic and international companies such as Alibaba Cloud, BGI Genomics, MGI Tech Co., Ltd., GAC Honda, USI, China National Pharmaceutical Foreign Trade Corporation, SK Hynix, PRADA, and etc. Mr Wang has represented in a number of smuggling cases and achieved good results such as non-prosecution, probation, change of sentence and reduction of sentence, and one of the cases led by him was selected as a typical case by Guangdong Lawyers Association in 2019.

Mr Wang currently serves as a member of the Foreign-related Criminal Professional Committee of Guangdong Lawyers Association, a member of the Foreign-related Legal Professional Committee of Guangzhou Lawyers Association, and he has been selected as a Chinese expert of the Customs and Trade Facilitation Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), a Leading Talent of Foreign-Related Lawyer in Guangzhou, and a hearing officer at the Guangzhou People’s Procuratorate. Furthermore, Mr Wang has been recommended by The Legal 500 as a “WTO/International Trade” lawyer and a “Guangdong Province: Guangzhou and Shenzhen” lawyer. Mr Wang has been also recognised by the Asian Legal Business as one of the Top 15 South China Rising Lawyers and has been recommended in the “International Trade and Customs Law” field in the LEGALBAND China Top Rank Lawyers 2024. Mr Wang is qualified as an attorney-at-law in PRC.

Education Background

Sun Yat-sen University Master of Economic Law

Sun Yat-sen University Bachelor of Law

Work Experience

Jingtian & Gongcheng  Partner

DHH Guangzhou Branch Office Partner

Guangzhou Customs A public customs lawyer

Professional Qualifcation

Qualified PRC Lawyer

Main works

Exploration of “Customs Administrative Penalty Implementation Regulations” from the Perspective of panorama, Customs Research

Legalization of the Simplified Customs Administration and Decentralization——From the perspective of the Customs’Optimization of the Internal Approval Pilot Reform in the Nansha District of Guangdong Free Trade Zone, Customs Research

Talking about Customs Legislation from “Legislation Technical Specifications”, Customs Law Enforcement Research

Analysis of the Price Transaction Law in Customs Valuation, Customs Law Enforcement Research

The thoughts about Perfecting the Customs Legal Adviser System, Customs Law Enforcement Research

A Review of the Uniformity of Law Enforcemeng from the Perspective of Fairness and Effciency, Customs Law Enforcement Research

Article 21 Q&A, Answering Questions in“Interim Measures for the Administration of Customs Rulings”,Guangzhou Lawyer

Calculation and Application of Penalty Provisions for Cases of Excessive Import and Export of Foreign Currency, Guangzhou Lawyer

2006~2010 Guangdong Province Advanced workers of legal publicity

Has provided customs legal service for famous enterprises such as BGI and Honda.

Has provided legal advice on special customs supervision areas to a large automobile production company, which helped the enterprise smoothly achieve its business transformation.

Has represented a foreign-invested electronic company to handle taxation procedures and administrative reconsideration. Finally, a settlement was reached between the two parties.

Has represented a well-known tire company to carry out intellectual property protection of customs border,and the protection has achieved good results.

Has represented the largest pangolin smuggling case, a salmon smuggling case involving 150 million RMB, and a 100 million RMB cross-border e-commerce smuggling case, etc. All these cases have achieved excellent results in obtaining bail,no prosecution, probation, and light sentencing.