Team
With our experience, both with H2020 projects and outside those, we are capable of bringing added-value to Horizon Europe project consortia and assist them, either as consortium member or as external advisor.
We understand perfectly the needs, timeframe, format of deliverables and expected impact of our contribution to funded projects.
Our aim is to the be the go-to law firm where Horizon Europe consortia will find the right legal advisor who can tailor its services to the needs of the project.
Our strong and well-established link with the academic world allows us to deliver prospective legal work and to think beyond the current state of the art.
Our knowledge of both EU and Belgian law is a valuable asset, as most Horizon Europe projects require knowledge of both legal systems, especially in contractual matters.
We are a truly European, multi-lingual, law firm. Our law firm team members cover three different languages: English, French and Dutch.
Anthony Bochon
Partner
Expertise
Anthony Bochon is the founding partner of BOCHON & FULMINI, together with Azelio FULMINI. After graduating with a law degree from the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and a bachelor degree in History from the Université Saint-Louis (USL) in 2010, he received his LL.M. from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) in 2011. He is a member of the Brussels Bar (French-speaking Bar) since 2011 and was previously a partner at Belgian law firm Everest and a senior associate at international law firm Squire Patton Boggs. He has been seconded from 2015 to 2017 as part-time legal counsel to the Belgian subsidiary of Fortune 500 industrial conglomerate specialised in various industrial and consumer products (ranging from chemicals to electronic devices).
Anthony Bochon represents clients from all sectors before national and EU courts and advises them on non-litigation matters pertaining to EU law, IP/IT law, corporate/commercial and regulatory matters. Anthony Bochon is a part-time lecturer and researcher at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB, French-speaking) where he lectures on EU Law and Economic Law (including IP Law).
He is currently pursuing a PhD thesis on principles of Innovation Law. He successfully obtained his Ph.D. research certificate in 2022.
He regularly serves as an independent expert for the European Commission and currently serves also on the advisory board of two Horizon 2020 projects, SurfBio and LifeSaver.
He has contributed to more than 30 scientific publications since 2010 and authored a reference legal textbook (in French) named “Code de la recherche et du développement technologique” (Code of R&D laws), which is the first textbook to gather 396 legal texts under international, EU and Belgian laws pertaining to R&D activities, from the lab to the fab.
His next book “Nanotechnology Law & Guidelines” is due to be published in 2024 by Springer. In 2014, he received the Jean-Jacques Boels award from the Brussels Bar for this publication on EU food laws and nanotechnologies.
He was also a member of the Ad-Hoc Working Group of the OECD on Intellectual Property and Chemical Safety Data and regularly speaks at tech-oriented conferences (including recently Nanosafe 2023).
In December 2020, he was recognized as a Certified Information Privacy Professional (Europe) by the International Association of Privacy Professionals.
He is a member of several professional associations including the International Bar Association and is a director of GLAWBUS, the Global Law and Business Organisation. He speaks fluently French, Dutch and English.
Aline Vernet
Associate
Expertise
Aline VERNET is an associate of Bochon & Fulmini and member of the Brussels Bar since September 2024.
After graduating with a master degree law (specialisation in economic law) from the Université libre de Bruxelles, she has obtained an advanced master in Innovation and Strategic Management from the Solvay Brussels School.
Her curriculum has allowed to get a full picture of the business world, both from a legal and from an innovation strategy point of view and to better identify the challenges organisations are confronted to.