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good morning everyone and a big welcome to all who were able to join us live this morning or this afternoon if you've joined us from Asia to talk about East signatures today and how to get it right today I'll be joined by two of my fellow field Fisher colleagues to discuss the e signing and before I introduce them this session will run for about 30 minutes with time for questions at the end you'll find that there's a Q&A or question box on your screens and do feel free to submit your questions as as we go and we'll take them all at the end the other thing to say is that we'll be recording the session and we'll make sure to share a recording with each of you afterwards so that you can share it with your colleagues so today I'm joined by Richard Gibbard and James Lewis now Richard is a professional support lawyer in our finance team and off counsel so he tends to be the person that we all go to with those annoying technical questions and we're seeing those questions coming in thick and fast on e-signatures right now which is why we decided to do this session James Lewis is a partner in our dispute resolution team and his clients tend to be banks corporates or high net worths and he deals with anything from contractual issues to shareholder disputes and generally as a troublemaker so we go to him when things go wrong and he's also seeing a lot of thorny dispute related questions on e-signatures so with that we're going to turn off our cameras during the presentation but we'll turn them back on at the end for the questions and with that over to you chaps thanks very much thanks so much Tim and so before we jump in substantive Lee I'll just say a few words about what it is that we're likely to cover and I should imagine that most of you listening in today will be here because of the increased chatter around electronic signatures and the logistical problems we face in obtaining and exchanging traditional wedding signatures on documents both in the UK and internationally a lot of that chatter has focused on the legal effect of electronic signatures but we've seen and heard less on the practicalities and the pain points that electronic signatures themselves bring with that in mind this webinar will look at the execution of documents in a transactional context and provide a deeper insight into how the signed contract electronically the problems to avoid and some pips are overcoming a few of those practical difficulties this webinar comes somewhat hot on the heels of the Law Society of England and Wales having updated its 2016 guidance on the use of virtual execution and heat signatures in response to the coffered 19 pandemic and we've incorporated some of that guidance in our content today at the end of the presentation...