Suzanne Hengl > Baker Botts L.L.P. > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Baker Botts L.L.P. Offices
30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10112-4498
NEW YORK
United States
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Suzanne Hengl
Work Department
Intellectual Property / Branding, Advertising & Copyright
Position
Partner
Section Chair – Branding, Advertising & Copyright (Firmwide)
Career
Suzi is a hands-on trademark practitioner who partners with clients to secure, protect, promote, and defend their brands from creation through litigation. Her practice focuses on trademark, advertising and copyright litigation, prosecution, and counseling, and also encompasses diligence investigations, drafting and negotiation of IP and marketing agreements, advertising claims review, and counseling concerning promotions. Suzi represents clients in trademark, copyright and advertising litigation in federal courts and before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and the National Advertising Division.
Suzi has represented clients in a number of different industries including computer and consumer electronics, retail, apparel, telecommunications, energy, financial services, entertainment, food and beverage, leisure and hospitality, food packaging, facilities management and architectural products.
Suzi is committed to her clients and to the community in which she works and lives. She is the Chair of the New York office’s Pro Bono Committee and sits on the Steering Committee for the firms’ strategic collaboration with Official Black Wall Street (OBWS), an organization with a membership of more than 5,500 Black-owned businesses globally.
Memberships
New York State Bar
United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
New York Intellectual Property Law Association, Trademark Committee, Former Member
International Trademark Association, Member
New York Intellectual Property Law Association, Member
Education
J.D., Fordham University School of Law 2006
magna cum laude
Member, Fordham Law Review
Order of the Coif
Archibald R. Murray Public Service Award
B.A., English, University of Virginia 2000
with honors
Phi Beta Kappa
Golden Key National Honor Society
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
Firm Rankings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Finance > Project finance
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense