Counsel II

Counsel II
Vice President, Senior Counsel -- Capital Markets and M&A
Comerica Bank has an open Senior Counsel position for an experienced and highly motivated attorney supporting lines of business and departments throughout the organization on matters involving corporate law, including capital markets and M&A. The attorney will work at the Bank's headquarters in Dallas, Texas.   Position Competencies
This Counsel position requires the highest level of legal analysis, integrity, trust, and judgment. The successful attorney must have excellent oral and written communication skills, superb people skills, the ability to learn new areas of law quickly, business acumen, political savvy, an ability to anticipate and meet the   Position Responsibilities:

• Provides counsel in connection with capital management, share repurchases, debt and equity issuances, and other finance-related matters.
• Supports the Capital Markets group, conducting legal work related to various capital markets activities.
• Analyze complex legal issues and implications in cases, transactions, and other legal matters of significance to the bank. Prepares legal opinion letters in complex matters. Independently researches applicable law.
• Advises senior bank officers of the legal implications of proposed policy, course of action or management decision and assists in reviewing legal issues. Assists in reviewing legal issues in the incumbent area of expertise. Litigates or analyzes complex cases of significant impact in state or federal court on behalf of the bank.
• Negotiates lending transactions, settlements and workouts, and other legal matters on the bank's behalf in cases of significant impact to the bank. Prepares pleadings, fillings, briefs, transactional documentation, policy, and procedure guides in complex matters.
• Attorney must be licensed to practice law and a member in good standing in Texas or be admitted to practice and a member in good standing of another U.S. bar association and eligible for admission to the State Bar of Texas without examination.