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William Carleton counsels high-growth companies, founders, investors, board members and corporate executives. He loves startups. His day-to-day practice encompasses venture formation, private securities offerings, M&A, licensing (of software, UGC, other media, data and IP), corporate governance, "Internet LLCs," executive employment, and founder transitions.

Mr. Carleton represents ActiveRain, General UI, Hoaloha Robotics, IdentityMine, Quu, Tamarac, TapDynamics, Uber Entertainment and ValuValu, among others. He maintains personal and professional relationships with many serial entrepreneurs and often represents them as individuals.

Mr. Carleton serves on the Advisory Council to the the Angel Capital Association Public Policy Committee.

Mr. Carleton blogs startup law, financing and philosophy at http://wac6.com. He blogs art at http://wac6arts.com. He tweets as @wac6. "Entrepreneurs' Prior Lives," a podcast series he curates, is available on iTunes.

Prior Experience
Mr. Carleton has also worked with fast growing companies from the inside. From 2003 to 2006, he was general counsel and secretary of Who’s Calling, a b2b telecommunications company. Prior to that, he served "in house" at Tamarac and at Bot.Net, a predecessor of ePartners.

In 1999, Mr. Carleton co-founded Spangler Ventures, a manager of private equity investment vehicles.

During the dot-com era, Mr. Carleton was the attorney for startups F5 Networks, Union Street, Bot.Net and TeraHop Networks, among others.

Mr. Carleton has acted as secretary to many boards, and has served as a director himself on the boards of Bot.Net, Tamarac and Tegris.

Mr. Carleton directed the first feature-length movie shot in high-definition: Dot Con, a black comedy set in a fictional Seattle startup. It aired frequently (usually after midnight!) in the early days of HDNet, the first all-HD cable network.