Edward Truant

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Mr. Edward Truant is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer and Content Manager at Slingshot Capital. He is the Founder & serves as Shareholder at Balmoral Wood Alternatives. Ed is an active investor in the litigation finance sector, a leading proponent for litigation finance, and one of the first to fully embrace the attractiveness of the sector. recognizing its non-correlated characteristics, the inherent value of portfolio theory when investing in the sector, the relative inefficiency of the sector, and the long-term potential growth of the industry, Ed founded of one of the world's first global commercial litigation finance fund-of-funds. Given the knowledge he has gained through discussions with multiple managers in various jurisdictions operating in a variety of sub-sectors, Ed has a unique perspective on the global industry, the managers therein, and the intricacies of investing in the asset class. Ed has mainly focused on the commercial segment of litigation finance, and so the blog's content will be skewed in this regard. Ed's responsibilities included manager identification, fundraising, fund documentation, relationship management, fund diligence, fund marketing/thought leadership, and investment monitoring. Ed maintains and continues to develop relationships with over 80 commercial litigation finance fund managers in APAC, NA, and EMEA. Ed has more than 20 years of experience in mid-market private equity investing and M&A advisory services to private corporations. He has served both as CFO and interim CEO for portfolio companies of Imperial Capital Group, where he was also a partner. Ed earned a Bachelor of Commerce & Economics from the University of Toronto and is both a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) and Chartered Business Valuator (CBV). In addition to being a general partner of a commercial litigation finance fund-of-funds, Ed is an advisory board member of Sage Capital Partners, which manages a private equity search fund investing strategy, and R4 Technologies Inc., the world's first cross-enterprise management artificial intelligence platform.