Partners Vanessa A. Ignacio, Chair of Lowenstein’s Trademarks, Copyrights, Trade Secrets & Advertising practice group, and Matthew P. Hintz have been recognized by World Trademark Review (WTR) as 2025 Global Leaders in the private practice sector for the New Jersey region.

WTR Global Leaders brings together the world's foremost law firm and corporate trademark experts, allowing the wider community to benefit from their insight, experience and perspectives. WTR Global Leaders draws upon the WTR 1000 and the WTR 300 to identify the best of the best in trademark practice. For more on WTR’s methodology, click here.

The firm’s Trademark practice has been listed on the WTR 1000 for the past 14 consecutive years.  Ignacio and Hintz have been recognized on the WTR 1000 for the past 14 and seven consecutive years, respectively.

Ignacio represents Fortune 500 companies and internationally known brands across all sectors throughout every stage of the brand life cycle: from selection, clearance, and registration; through licensing, maintenance, auditing, and enforcement. Her practice spans the full spectrum of intellectual property and technology law matters, domain name and Internet issues, and advertising law, with a special emphasis on domestic and international trademark counseling and enforcement.

Hintz advises global and emerging pharmaceutical, beauty and skincare, consumer goods, technology, and other companies, managing their domestic and international trademark portfolios and helping to develop their growth strategies into new domestic and international markets. He also represents private equity firms and other investors in multimillion-dollar acquisitions with significant trademark and copyright portfolios.