BBH EXPERTS

• IT, media and telecommunications law
• Fibre-optics, LoRaWAN, IoT and smart city projects
• Energy and infrastructure law
• Civil and civil procedure law, administrative procedural law
• Competition law and intellectual property
• General company and business law

Julien Wilmes-Horváth advises numerous clients in the IT and telecoms sectors. The key areas of his practice include strategic issues as well as contract law and regulatory matters. He assists clients with all types of projects including fibre-optic / FTTH projects as well as IoT, green IT and smart city initiatives. His further areas of expertise include AI law and general business law. He represents clients before civil and administrative courts as well as authorities (e.g. the Federal Network Agency), is a frequent author of specialist articles and regularly speaks at conferences and seminars.

• Born in Cologne in 1987
• 2008-2013 studies of law at the University of Cologne and Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
• Work at the Cologne office of a major national law firm in the area of insurance law and at an international law firm in Düsseldorf in the areas of energy and banking/capital markets alongside his studies
• 2013-2016 legal traineeship at the Higher Regional Court of Cologne including placements at the Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the OECD, IEA and NEA in Paris, France, an international law firm in Düsseldorf in the area of energy law as well as BBH Cologne in the areas of telecommunications law and concession law
• 2016-2017 research assistant in the area of energy and banking law at a major German law firm in Düsseldorf
• Since 2017 lawyer at BBH Cologne
• Since 2020 counsel at BBH
• Since 2022 specialist lawyer for information technology law
• Since 2025 partner at BBH
• Member of the Cologne and German lawyers associations KölnerAnwaltVerein e.V., DeutscherAnwaltVerein e.V. as well as the Cologne alumni association for media law Alumni- und Förderverein Medienrecht Köln e.V.
• Publishes and lectures widely on topics relating to telecoms and IT law
• Since 2025 editor for telecommunications topics at the infrastructure law journal “Zeitschrift InfrastrukturRecht” (IR), published by C. H. Beck