What are E-signatures, how do they work and what does best
practice look like? David Lowe shares his insight into this
important topic and provides practical guidance on using
E-signatures to manage your day-to-day commercial contracts.
Transcript
Hi, I am David Lowe and I am one of the partners behind
Thinkhouse. I am also a partner in our commercial contracts team
and I am going to talk today about electronic signatures.
Electronic signatures have actually been around a long time, in
fact a PDF signature is actually an electronic signature and we
have all completed contracts using PDF, or back in the mists of
time faxed signatures.
So why is it on the agenda now? Well a number of reasons, first
of all we had a new European Regulation in 2016 which sought to
harmonise the rules in electronic signatures across Europe, and
that led to various software houses promoting their products to
support e-signatures within organisations; we have also had a
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