Edward Truant

Edward Truant is the CEO of Slingshot Capital, a resource dedicated to investing in the litigation finance asset class. He was a founder of the world's first commercial litigation finance fund-of-funds and is an active investor, both personally and professionally, in the asset class. His responsibilities included fundraising, deal origination, legal documentation, diligence reviews, tax structuring, financial modelling & analysis, marketing and the administration of the fund.

Previously, Ed was a Partner at Imperial Capital Group and co-led the acquisitions of Ackerman Security Systems and Lise Watier Cosmetiques Inc. among other investments. He also played a key role in the acquisition of Pacific Coast Publishing, LLC, an independent yellow pages publisher, through parent company YPTel, for which he served as the company’s chief financial officer. Ed began his accounting career as an audit and a tax specialist with Coopers & Lybrand, an international public accounting firm, where he articled while obtaining his Chartered Accountant designation in 1993.

Ed graduated with a BCom from the University of Toronto in 1991, and later obtained his Chartered Business Valuator designation in 1997. Serving as a past director of many private companies, Ed is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Business Valuators.