Incisive Legal Insights

Incisive Legal Insights

Corporate and Commercial Benaters Corporate and Commercial Benaters

This is Not The Sopranos!

Regardless of the size of your business and whether your business is with family members or family owned, it makes no difference. Business is business. And part of every business lies the necessity for agreements – sale agreements, distribution agreements, employment agreements and even loan agreements. The fact that the agreement may be between you and your brother does not negate the need for the agreement. In fact, it makes it more necessary.

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Notarial and Apostille Services Benaters Notarial and Apostille Services Benaters

Contracting Out of the Use of Electronic Signatures

If you want to make it absolutely clear that your company will only regard itself bound by a conventional signature, you must stipulate in your contract of employment (or any other contract) that 'signed' refers to a hand-written signature, excluding any signature appended by 'electronic communication' as defined in the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, no. 25 of 2002.

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