CECA Magán Abogados is a law firm with 49 years of experience in legal advisory services. It currently has a team of more than 30 professionals and ranks in Spain’s Top 20.
In 2018, they faced the challenge of exponential growth, which required them to streamline the signing of internal and external documentation, protect information, and improve the client experience.
If you want to find out how Namirial‘s electronic signature helped them, keep reading!
+700
documents sent for online signing by CECA Magán
15
documents to multiple recipients per send
60%
of contracts sent in legal departments are signed the same day
The Challenge: Streamlining Contract and Document Signing
CECA Magán identified the need to speed up the signing processes for the documentation its corporate law area drafted and negotiated for clients.
They found that the traditional signing process dragged delivery times out excessively — sometimes even months.
This situation worsened when signatories were located outside Spain, or when there were many of them — for example, in funding rounds, where the process stretched out even further and became more tedious.
In short, this management approach cost CECA Magán time and cost their clients money.
“The traditional document signing process for the corporate team took far too long. In order to grow and evolve, we needed to work with electronic signature.”
— Esther Pérez García, Head of Corporate Law and M&A, CECA Magán
The Solution: Advanced Electronic Signature + Certified Email
The firm needed to improve its signing processes and commit to exponential growth in order to stand out as a technologically advanced firm.
After running several demos with different qualified providers, in 2018 they finally decided to implement Namirial for 2 reasons:
- An intuitive web platform.
- A simple signing process — an important feature since not all their clients are digital natives.
Since then, they’ve used advanced electronic signature for 2 types of processes:
- Internal administrative processes such as fee proposals and Know Your Client forms.
- External processes with clients for signing all kinds of documents: attendance lists for board and committee meetings, minutes drafted afterward, confidentiality agreements, shareholder disputes, letters of intent, all kinds of contracts (agency or collaboration agreements), and more complex ones such as sales of company shares and structural changes to companies, and more.
The Result: Agility Without Sacrificing Full Legal Guarantees
Electronic signature has made procedures easier:
- For the firm’s clients, who have come to see Namirial as a highly effective tool, and at times essential — as during lockdown.
- For lawyers and staff, who access the platform after just a few minutes of explanation.
As a result, after implementing electronic signature, CECA Magán has strengthened its relationship with clients, bringing speed and legal certainty, while making day-to-day work easier for all its professionals.
“Clients see us as a highly effective firm because, faced with the task of collecting signatures, we offer them a fast solution with full legal guarantees.”
— Esther Pérez García, Head of Corporate Law and M&A, CECA Magán
Another Digital Tool
Today, in addition to electronic signature, they use certified email for their communications, ensuring their clients receive them with reliable proof of delivery.
We hope this success story inspires you to implement this innovative solution in your own firm or legal department, streamlining your document flows and legal agreements.
“The cost savings for the client and the time savings for us have been enormous. Now we dedicate all our time to legal advice, where we add value, instead of handling administrative tasks.”
— Esther Pérez García, Head of Corporate Law and M&A, CECA Magán
Disclaimer: this success story was originally produced and published by Signaturit. Following the integration of Signaturit into the Namirial Group, it is now hosted on the Namirial website for archival and informational purposes. The results, figures, branding, and product references reflect the customer experience at the time of original publication and may no longer represent current offerings or outcomes.