William A. Carleton

Biography

Bill built his career as a technology and video games lawyer, with a strong focus on helping founding teams build, grow, and monetize new studios, interactive platforms, UGC communities, and graphics-rendering and other game-enabling technologies. His practice spanned venture capital financings, technology licenses, game development and publishing agreements, platform agreements, IP spinoffs, and company liquidity and M&A events.

Over a career of nearly three decades, Bill served a number of startups in-house and as a board director. He also played a leadership role in the startup financing ecosystem as both a member and chair of the advisory council of the Angel Capital Association. Bill joined McNaul Ebel in 2006 and long championed the firm’s culture of independence and strong litigation nous as key enablers of success for its transactional lawyers.

Locally, Bill has been a supporter of Seattle “lifestyle” businesses under the banner of “Brown Sauce” — BBQ, whiskey, and beer.