How Do I Sign Maine Banking Contract

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welcome to our quick tip episode on how to sign a contract hi i'm william dolan and this is esquire advice where we explain complicated and lucrative real estate and business topics remember we are not forming a lawyer client relationship by way of this channel always consult your local attorney before taking any action with that said grab a pencil and a piece of paper and get ready to learn first we have to make sure you get the contracting party's names correct on the top of the first page so generally in that first paragraph you're going to see a place where the contracting parties are going to be listed you want to make sure that your company name and not your individual name is listed in that spot i can't tell you how many times i've had clients come to me after a dispute erupts they send me the contract and i notice that they've listed their individual name on the contract and i say well why did you do that we formed these entities so that your company would be on the hook and not you personally and they say bill i didn't even notice i gave them my company name i gave them my business card is it my emails they knew what the company name was i guess i didn't look to confirm that it was the company listed and not me personally you have to do that you have to be sure that the company is listed as the contracting party us lawyers negotiate agreements for clients all the time i even had one occasion where i was negotiating an agreement the counterparty listed my law firm as the contracting party and of course we had to get that changed now let's talk about where and how to sign the signatures are usually going to be toward the end of the agreement this is what us attorneys would call signature block in an ideal world it would look something like the following esquire advice llc comma a delaware limited liability company and then under that you'd see buy colon and a line where i'd sign my name and under that you'd see it would say name colon william j dolan and yet under that title colon member or president whatever my capacity is now that's not always practical right but that's the way as lawyers would draft it the minimum standard i would say you want to make sure you sign your name comma put your capacity comma and then the company name so for me it would be i would sign my name comma member comma esquire advice llc same thing if it's a corporation you sign your name comma president xyz corporation i hope you found this quick tip on how to sign a contract helpful please kindly hit those like and subscribe buttons so we can keep bringing you valuable and profitable content with that said thanks for watching and...