MMag.Thomas Breuss
Core Areas
Banking Law & Capital Market Law
Litigation & Procedural Law
Data Protection Law & Digital Regulatory Law
office@ra-breuss.at
+436644583846
+436644583846
Data Protection Law & Digital Supervisory Law
Banking Law & Capital Market Law
Litigation & Procedural Law
office@ra-breuss.at +436644583846
WHY
SERVICES
Feasibility Studies, Legal Opinions, Special Audits
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For example:
- Checking planned data processing for legal compliance
- Checking the legal conformity of new services
- Checking the legal conformity, effectiveness / efficiency of internal company manuals and processes
- Review of the deletion concept under data protection law
Implementation of new laws, directives, standards
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- Draft or revision of manuals
- Advice on the development of internal company processes
- Advice on the adaptation of contracts
Litigation
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- Civil proceedings for banks and insurance companies
- Litigation for damages
- Administrative offence proceedings
- Proceedings under the AVG, e.g. concession applications, owner control proceedings, mergers and demergers, etc
- Support in criminal proceedings
- Fit & Proper procedures
- Requests from the data protection authority, e.g. in the context of a data breach
- Defense against abusive requests for information
- Data protection information requests for other procedures
Compliance as a Service
[Outsourcing of compliance services]
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- Contract revisions Art 28 GDPR
Legal as a Service
[Partial takeover of legal department competencies]
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- Data Protection Officer
- Anti-money laundering officer
- Whistleblowing-Hotline
- Supervisory Board member
BIO
Professional and Project Experience
2022 - ongoing
Lawyer / Managing Director
2014 - 2021
- Administrative penalty proceedings
- Fit & Proper procedures
- Defense against abusive data protection requests
- Bank licensing
- Transformation
- Data Protection Officer
- Project support, data protection deletion concepts in the banking environment
- Advising the data protection officer in the banking and insurance environment
- Fit & Proper training courses
Head of the banking supervisory law and data protection law department with a team of eight at peak times:
2013 - 2014
- Civil court proceedings
- Head of the debt collection department
- Administrative penalty proceedings
- Insolvency proceedings
- Fit & Proper training courses
Team Dr. Markus Fellner, focus on procedural law; banking and capital markets regulatory law, in particular:
2009 - 2012
- Numerous bank-related and securities firm-related administrative criminal cases
- Numerous civil court proceedings, in particular for investor defense
- Legal opinion on claims for damages
Team Dr. Ernst Brandl, focus on procedural law; banking and capital market regulatory law:
2008 - 2009
BGHS Vienna, Vienna Regional Criminal Court, Korneuburg Regional Labor and Social Court
Academics
2011 - ongoing
- Numerous smaller publications in various media (e.g. Wirtschaftsblatt, Fonds Professionell, Börse Express, EY magazines etc. (2011 - ongoing)
- Knoll/Breuss, The retention of personal data for the purpose of prosecution, jusIT 2019/11.
- Breuss/Wollmann,Criminal liability of companies in administrative criminal law?, ecolex 2018, 1140. (2018)
- Breuss/Plansky/Steiner/Wilhelm, The "banking package", in Marschner/Stefaner (eds.), Steuerreform 2015/2016. (2015)
- Fellner/Breuss, Art 137 B-VG: Enrichment law reversal of penalty interest or penalty payments, RdW 2013/701.
- Brandl/Breuss, Market manipulation and reliability as a manager, ecolex 2011, 500. (2011)
- Breuss, Market manipulation by investors on the Internet, in: Jaksch-Ratajczak, Aktuelle Rechtsfragen der Internetnutzung: Band 2. (2011)
2013
Bar Exam
2000 - 2008
Study of Law
1999 - 2008
Study of International Economics
