Catherine Trinkle Email & Phone Number

Catherine Trinkle is a Vice President & Deputy General Counsel - Regulatory, Environmental, & Government Affairs at BASF. She possess expertise in litigation, due diligence, contract negotiation, real estate, environmental awareness and 18 more skills. She is proficient in German and French. Colleagues describe her as "As an executive coach, I’ve known Cathy Trinkle and worked with her from 2020 through 2021 at BASF. I deeply appreciate her strengths and capabilities as a leader who has created a positive reputation in the US and abroad. She does this by inspiring team members, balancing her capabilities with analyses and strategic thinking with facilitating innovative ideas, and has achieved measurable successes with her many legal projects. Cathy is approachable and makes people feel comfortable. She exudes a calm demeanor in the face of difficult events that could create panic, successfully handling and managing difficult leadership situations. She is self-aware, empathetic, focused on issues that she follows to the end, and engages with colleagues and stakeholders about what is needed to produce high performance and results. Cathy is open to how to best approach challenges. She has a keen understanding of others’ various perspectives, and in her role, builds her network and bridges. She is excellent as a facilitator in keeping things productive and on point. She is open to considering other’s ideas, a strong team builder, collaborative and looks for opportunities to bring teams together. I highly recommend Cathy for her leadership and legal prowess, with her deep knowledge and experience.", "A consummate leader, Catherine Trinkle is accomplished at guiding disparate groups across global corporate organizations and with diverging growth strategies to shared success. Beyond managerial prowess, Catherine possesses in-depth knowledge concerning the multitude of legal regulatory issues facing the manufacturing industry and is an expert at addressing new federal/state policy developments affecting facilities’ license to operate. At the same time, she is eminently adept at transactional lawyering and litigation in this highly complex environment. Being skilled at government affairs, she also successfully navigates through the organizational bureaucracies of the U.S. Senate, House, and various agencies in the Washington, D.C. landscape while building productive NGO relationships. The onus of overseeing compliance and exportation issues for product portfolios across global business units falls within her purview, and Catherine is additionally responsible for individual work products in M&A, corporate governance, and product regulation. Whether as a leader or colleague, Catherine is committed to coaching, mentoring, and developing talent throughout all aspects of the organization.", and "I am pleased to submit this recommendation for Cathy. Simply put, Cathy is one of the best and smartest attorneys I have had the privilege to work with and supervise throughout my career. She combines outstanding government policy and legal knowledge with first-rate communication skills and leadership, necessary for her current (and my former) position to translate critical legal and government affairs policies into positive results for the company. Cathy originally joined my Regulatory and Government Affairs group to take on responsibilities over trade compliance and trade policy, serving both as lawyer and policy/government affairs expert on international trade and export compliance, having had experience in regulatory/environmental matters throughout her career. Cathy demonstrated her capabilities in not only the legal/compliance aspects of international trade but as well the intricacies of navigating a challenging political environment. This demanded rapidly creating and maintaining positive relations within industry groups, with legislators and government regulators, as well as foreign governments of key trade partners (e.g. EU, Germany). Cathy's ability to quickly establish relations and work for positive policy outcomes was evident, adding a key element of government relations expertise to her considerable legal skills. Most importantly in the in-house environment, translating legal and political realities to company personnel is key. Cathy's positive client skills were apparent in translating legal needs in the trade arena to positive company compliance and outcomes. Cathy thus was an easy choice when as a result of organizational structure moves, we promoted her to lead the entire Product and Trade Regulation group of my department. She thus assumed responsibility over the entire area of product regulation (including chemical, pesticide and food & drug) in addition to trade responsibilities. This position continued to require her ability to navigate critical relationships with regulators and industry groups to advance critical policy positions for the company, as well as move along company needs for product approvals and to defend those approvals. Her skills were recognized by global management when selected for a delegation to BASF's Brussels Government Relations office. Cathy was thus the choice and my recommendation to succeed me as head (Deputy GC) of Regulatory, Environmental Law and Government Affairs in BASF Corporation. Her demonstrated team and policy leadership, ability to acquire and maintain key external relationships, and ability to translate policy and legal needs to practical business advice made her the outstanding choice for a demanding leadership role as Deputy General Counsel."

Listed skills include Litigation, Due Diligence, Contract Negotiation, Real Estate, and 19 others.