Did the search engine impose fines on a site with “incorrect” markup?

Question

Search Engine Optimization

I have a menu on the site, and the menu contains items in two lines in size. The cant is that the menu items themselves have a certain height, so these two lines need to be centered in height.
In addition, the customer wanted a mobile version where the hover event does not work, and elements of the LI type are not highlighted using the phone arrows, that is, I need to bind to the A (link) element to make the highlight.
In any case, I make this element a block element.
So I have to do something like this:

<a href="#">
  <table>
    <td>{{name}}</td>
  </table>
</a>

What will the search engine say about such links?
Will the site get fined?
Is there any other smart way to do this? (I'm considering

a {display: table}, .in {display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle;}

Answer 1

it turns out much better that the link itself is a table cell, and wrap it in turn in a block with display: table