Suzie Trigg

Suzie Trigg is the Chair of Haynes Boone’s FDA Regulatory and Compliance Group. Suzie develops practical strategies and solutions for companies that produce or sell FDA regulated products to assess and respond to evolving regulatory requirements, risks associated with their products, and FDA actions. She also helps companies develop and manage labeling and advertising claims to best promote their products and has led and supported transformative transactions for consumer products companies and retailers.

Suzie’s work spans the early development of FDA regulated products and the determination of product classification and whether FDA approval, notification, or authorization is required or helpful to post-market issues including effectively responding to FDA inspection observations, import detentions, warning letters, and regulatory meetings, and assessing potential recalls.

Suzie’s background is in agriculture and public policy, and while she has experience across the range of FDA regulated industry, including medical devices, dietary supplements, cosmetics, biologics, and over-the-counter drugs, she spends much of her day-to-day work on all things food related. Her work has included:

• Performing preventive gap analyses and analyzing specific events to determine regulatory and legal obligations and to chart a long-term course of action to correct and prevent re-occurrence;
• Facilitating investigations and responding to potential product concerns, including allegations of food fraud, a foodborne illness outbreak, and other potential food safety concerns;
• Preparing and implementing supplier standards and supply chain agreements for multiple global restaurant chains and large retailers and steering transactions for the manufacturing and distribution of food, including a series of agreements with over $5 billion in annual purchases.

Suzie actively participates in industry organizations and has served on committees of the Food and Drug Law Institute and the Council for Responsible Nutrition and Haynes Boone is a member of FMI, the Food Industry Association.

Suzie was recognized as a “Rising Star” in food and drug law by Texas Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters) from 2016-2021. She was also recognized as one of D Magazine’s “Best Lawyers in Dallas” (D Magazine Partners) in 2018 and 2020.