Cao Ying

Introduction

Cao Ying is a partner at Global Law Office in Beijing. Before joining Global, she amassed more than a decade of domestic and international experience, working at a local Chinese prosecutorial authority and a renowned Chinese-funded enterprise in the US as a prosecutor and legal affairs head. Cao specialises in regulatory compliance in innovative platform economies. She has provided comprehensive legal services for multinational corporations in government investigations across jurisdictions.

Her expertise particularly shines in fintech and blockchain, including cryptocurrencies, where she offers regulatory compliance legal services for leading overseas crypto exchanges, blockchain, cloud computing, AI and metaverse companies. She explores practical operational methods for clients in multiple dimensions such as cross-regional government investigations, anti-money laundering, anti-sanctions and anti-corruption, earning her client acclaim.

Cao regularly contributes to academic journals, focusing on crypto assets, cross-border cybercrime, and extraterritorial regulations and sanctions. She edited Surfing Web3.0 ‒ A Metaverse Compliance Guide, and co-authored Web3.0: Transformation and Challenges of the Next Generation Internet.

Her papers include The Rise in Popularity of Cryptocurrency and Associated Criminal Activity in the International Criminal Justice Review, and Use of Bitcoin in Darknet Markets: Examining Facilitative Factors on Bitcoin-Related Crimes in the American Journal of Criminal Justice.