Conway adds legal clout at RadioScape

RadioScape has appointed Richard Conway as General Counsel and Company Secretary.

RadioScape has appointed Richard Conway as General Counsel and Company Secretary.

Conway brings more than 20 years worth of cutting edge legal experience in the IT sector and a peerless intellectual Property (IP) pedigree to RadioScape.

In the competitive world of technology IP, solid legal experience is crucial for ensuring that partnerships work as intended, IP is protected, and the complex transactions involved can be undertaken with confidence and ease for all involved.

Conway's legal experience ranges from private practice, to senior roles within UK regional government, to crucial positions within industry.

From 1983, Conway was General Counsel at Acorn Group, a worldwide innovator in personal computing, CPU technologies, and the technology IP business model.

Acorn's efforts to develop the first advanced, low-cost RISC (reduced instruction set complexity) microprocessor family led to the creation of ARM Holdings.

ARM remains an IP innovator, as ARM's microprocessor IP is to be found in a very wide array of products and applications across nearly all technology market sectors.

RISC architecture remains the standard for high-performance computing today.

Conway was instrumental in protecting the interests of its former parent as a major shareholder throughout the extremely complex transactions involved in the ARM IPO process.

Other major shareholders in ARM included powerful players such as Apple Computer.

At the next stage of Acorn's evolution, Conway also played a crucial role.

He was part of the small MBO team which negotiated an agreed bid from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter to acquire Acorn, and through a complex series of transactions, a new company, Element 14, was founded in the process.

Element 14, which was formed after raising venture capital finance from several high profile investors, acquired Acorn's silicon design IP from Morgan Stanley.

As General Counsel, Conway was responsible for all legal affairs at Element 14, which quickly created a successful fabless DSL chip business and attracted high profile suitors.

Within 15 months Conway and his cofounders had sold the company to Broadcom Corp.

Conway spent 18 months as Broadcom's European Counsel before joining Radioscape.

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