Elias Schönborn

Dr. Elias Schönborn is an Attorney at Law in Vienna and founder of the law firm es.law. He advises and represents companies as well as their executives and employees in all areas of Criminal Compliance, White Collar Crime and Whistleblowing. In addition to criminal defense, he supports his clients in enforcing their rights if they have suffered damage by white-collar criminal conduct.

Elias is certified both as Compliance Officer and as Whistleblowing Officer and regularly supports Internal Investigations to uncover possible business criminal law conduct by employees or the management of companies.

He regularly gives lectures on his areas of expertise and is co-author of the first legal commentary on the Austrian Whistleblower Protection Act (HSchG) and the first Austrian practical handbook on Criminal Compliance. The prestigious and worldwide research, ranking and publishing firm Legal 500 lists Elias Schönborn as a ‘Rising Star’ in the field of White Collar Crime (incl Fraud).

The services of the law firm es.law at a glance:

➤ Criminal Defense (Business Criminal Law, Corruption Criminal Law, Medical Criminal Law, IT Criminal Law, Corporate Criminal Law, Environmental Criminal Law)

➤ Criminal Compliance and preventive criminal law advice (creation/adjustment of Compliance Management Systems, risk analyses, codes of conduct, employee training, legal opinions, Anti-Fraud, Anti-Corruption, etc.)

➤ Whistleblowing and Internal Investigations (Whistleblower protection law compliance, initial review of whistleblowing reports for companies, Confidential Lawyer for whistleblower systems, Internal Investigations)

➤ Private participation in criminal proceedings and civil liability proceedings (tort law, manager liability, managing director liability, medical liability, product liability, etc.)