The UK government recently issued final guidance on its Coronavirus Future Fund (the Scheme) launched in April to support innovative and fast-growth businesses through the COVID-19 outbreak.

Businesses confront the most significant challenge in a generation as their markets shrink, change or disappear. Having navigated the initial phase of the crisis implementing a series of cost saving and liquidity measures, companies are now progressing to the next phase.

The government’s restrictions imposed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic have raised a number of practical difficulties for parties when signing documents. In this second part we consider a recommended approach to remote or virtual signings.