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Adobe Acrobat Sign and Deloitte Legal Services

Adobe Acrobat Sign is a document cloud solution that helps organisations deliver end-to-end digital document experiences with trusted, legal electronic signatures. Deloitte is a strategic global Alliance Partner to Adobe, with over 25 years of experience working with Adobe as a customer, supplier and partner, and a long history of collaboration on product strategy and direction.

Deloitte Legal and Adobe have formed a strategic alliance to support clients in the roll-out and adoption of Adobe Acrobat Sign – both locally and globally. Adobe provides the technology and strategic implementation for clients and Deloitte Legal can help you develop an internal environment that is ready and able to adopt e-signature solutions, and provide technology to give structured advice on valid and enforceable electronic signature methods, for both single and multi-jurisdictional arrangements.

How might the Adobe e-signature tool benefit your company?

  • Quick access to key document and contracts from any location, on mobile or desktop
  • Ability to sign documents electronically with ease – no downloads or sign-ups required
  • Legally binding process which is secure and verifiable – digital IDs come from accredited Trust Service Providers (TSPs)
  • The digital signature and the PDF document are cryptographically bound, protected and secured with a tamper-evident seal


How Deloitte Legal can help?

Deloitte has developed a software platform which gives answers to the ever-changing, often complex, “(how) can I e-sign this document?” – including for knotty multi-jurisdictional arrangements, and leveraging existing document templates where appropriate.

Deloitte has also established a dedicated team of professionals to:

  • Maintain and support our global database of electronic signature rules and laws
  • Support clients with the formation of electronic signature policies and processes
  • Conduct and maintain inventories of documents, agreements, policies, legal entities and approved signature providers tailored to clients’ arrangements
  • Identify further legal requirements to ensure compliance with general and industry-specific privacy risks (e.g. GDPR, Swiss banking secrecy, etc.)
  • Support clients to perform a due diligence of existing contract type to assess legal requirements and/or risks across a company’s geographical footprint

Deloitte Legal works with companies on a multi-jurisdictional basis to help them derive the full benefits of their electronic signature tools, and to implement robust coherent global policies in respect of their use.

Clients who have requested our Deloitte Legal e-signature assistance:

Chemical
company

Legal validity assessment of current signing and contracting processes

  • Managed the definition of the project governance, processes and policies for a global roll-out of the e-signature solution
  • Provided electronic signature validity guidance and opinion in over 70+ countries

Multinational
commodity trading company

Legal validity assessment of current signing and contracting processes

  • Performed a legal validity assessment of current signing and contracting processes and review of volumetrics (interviews with stakeholders)
  • Provided local guidance on the general admissibility of the documents selected for e-signature as per local laws (+15 countries in scope)
  • Provided detailed legal memorandums on selected documents (corporate, M&A, commercial, finances, HR, sales) and applicable laws
  • Internal procedures reviewed including recommendations to streamline the process (conditions to meet, process, change management, training)
  • Prepared e-signature policy and e-archiving policy at global and regional level
  • Consideration of current market best practice approaches

International
bank

Legal validity assessment of current signing and contracting processes

  • Supported the solution architecture and the legal team at the client site to define and cluster various use cases covering different authentication procedures and documents 
  • Performed a cross-border legal analysis involving over 10+ countries, including case law analytics to identify appropriate mitigation measures when using advanced or simple electronic signatures instead of qualified electronic signatures
  • Provided support in relation to the regulatory assessment of the trust service provider (TSP), certification authority and banking regulator
  • Provided assistance in the updating of e-signature policies, classification matrix, guidance and
    training 

Swiss
trust services company

Assessment of the market potential of the European Identity Verification and Digital Transaction management

  • Provision of a high-level legal analysis in 12 major EU countries regarding the local regulations and potential reforms about e-ID, e-signature, and e-archiving:
    a. Dominant position regarding freedom of form vs written requirements and nature of most common formalities
    b. Description of existing regulations in national legislation that define the requirements and conditions for e-ID, e-signature, e-seal, e-archiving
    c. Description of pending or future legal reforms regarding e-ID, e-signature, e-seal, e-archiving
    d. Description of relevant trends in case law regarding e-ID, e-signature, e-seal, e-archiving, acceptance of SES, AES, QES.


Life
sciences company

Legal assistance to HR team to deploy an e-signature solution across all of EMEA

  • Understand current signing processes (documents signed, signatories, entities), applicable law and volumetrics
  • Understand desired future state HR signing processes
  • Validate possibility to use e-signature for the contemplated set of HR documents and recommendation on the type of e-signature to be used (SES, AES, QES) as per Swiss law
  • List of potential risks, specifically from an employment, social security and tax law perspective, and suggested mitigation measures
  • Provide recommendation for the deployment of local QES processes

Key Contacts - United Kingdom

Andrew Joint

Andrew Joint

Partner

+44 (0)20 7007 5011

He is a technology and outsourcing lawyer, with a particular specialism in cloud, digital and business transformation, AI, Robotic Process Automation, IoT, system integration and complex technology co... More

Key Contact - Switzerland

Paul de Blasi

Paul de Blasi

Partner

+41 58 279 8474

Paul is a Partner in the Tax and Legal Team at Deloitte Switzerland focussed on M&A and Corporate Restructuring. He is a Swiss qualified attorney-at-law with over 15 years of professional experience i... More

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