Brou\'e's abelian defect group conjecture for the Held group and the sporadic Suzuki group Shigeo Koshitani, Naoko Kunugi and Katsushi Waki Abstract. In the representation theory of finite groups, there is a well known and important conjecture due to M. Brou\'e. He conjectures that, for any prime p, if a p-block A of a finite group G has an abelian defect group P, then A and its Brauer corresponding p-block B of N_G(P) are derived equivalent. We demonstrate in this paper that Brou\'e's conjecture holds for non-principal 3-blocks A with elementary abelain defect group P of order 9 of the simple Held group and the sporadic simple Suzuki group.