g-digital, Garrigues’ digital business division, rounds off 2025 with new digital trust products and increases its eIDAS offering

g-digital, Garrigues’ digital business division, went from strength to strength in 2025, strengthening its core business with new digital trust solutions. These new offerings combine technological development with legal design, enabling them to operate in demanding business environments, ensuring legal certainty and regulatory compliance. Products are created by Garrigues lawyers and technology experts from g-digital and EAD Trust, the qualified trust service provider in which the firm holds a controlling interest.

Over the past year, g‑digital has built up a catalog of solutions covering the entire digital trust cycle, the digital infrastructure required for legal certainty:

• Electronic signature for simple or advanced processes using Signature Manager, a custom tool available on the EAD Enterprise Suite platform for managing signatures with traceability and associated evidence. Launched in October 2025, it uses European infrastructure, ensuring compliance with the GDPR and full traceability of the process through qualified time stamps.
• Document storage and certification using eArchiving, another EAD Enterprise Suite service geared towards the secure and traceable preservation of files and electronic documentation (data rooms, due diligence processes, schedules, source code, internal certifications, confidential information, etc.) in the European sovereign cloud. It replaces physical schedules or USB copies with a digital system that preserves the integrity, permanence and traceability of the documentation.
• Authenticated communications: the Enterprise ecosystem incorporates certified electronic notification capabilities through Notice Manager. This tool certifies the sending, content and exact time of notification in a reliable, traceable and legally valid manner by using qualified time stamps. It is designed for scenarios such as payment demands and claims, contractual and precontractual notices, labor-related notices, customer and supplier communications, audit and compliance processes, and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms.
• Generation of electronic evidence using cell phones with GoCertius, an app designed to enable any user to certify facts or digital content (documents, images, videos or messages). In 2025, the tool incorporated Certified Chat, which allows users to certify chats and files in Telegram using qualified time stamps, providing legal assurance for digital communications.
• Management of qualified certificates, required for qualified electronic signatures and completing procedures on public agency websites, with Credential Manager. This tool supports procedures such as filing tax returns and completing formalities before notaries, public registries, the social security authorities, etc.
• Integration of eIDAS-based services in business processes using EAD Factory, allowing for the incorporation of electronic signatures, time stamps and certified delivery/notification mechanisms into corporate flows. eIDAS (Electronic Identification, Authentication and Trust Services) is the EU regulation that establishes a framework for electronic identification and trust services (such as electronic signatures, seals and stamps) with a view to ensuring secure and valid digital transactions between member states, enabling citizens to use their national ID document to access public services in other countries and defining levels of electronic signature (simple, advanced, qualified) to provide legal validity.

All of these tools enable organizations to digitalize critical processes (contracts, communications with customers and suppliers, storage of documents, etc.) with evidentiary safeguards and a trust framework aligned with European standards.

g‑digital also continues to develop its digital assets business line, taking part in initiatives such as OpenBrick, a new digital platform offering custom finance solutions, and which expects to commence operations with its first securities issue in early 2026.

Looking ahead to 2026, the entry into force of the eIDAS 2.0 Regulation will drive deployment of the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet), with member states being required to offer it to citizens and businesses, enabling secure identification and access to digital services throughout the EU. This will mean that organizations must be ready to comply with the new obligations.

Added to this are new requirements linked to technologies that are becoming firmly established in the business world, including artificial intelligence. Against this backdrop, g‑digital offers client solutions based on compliance-by-design (a strategic approach that embeds legal and regulatory requirements directly into the design of systems, processes and products from the outset), and capable of being integrated into real-world processes.