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Grant Thornton UK has promoted Jade Palmer to the partnership and appointed her to lead its Infrastructure Valuations and Modelling practice, with immediate effect.
Palmer, who is based in London, was previously a director in the team. She joined Grant Thornton in 2018 as a manager and was promoted to director in 2021.
Her role includes responsibility for the firm’s infrastructure valuations and modelling work, which provides support across the transaction lifecycle for infrastructure and energy assets, including transactional and financial reporting.
Palmer has spent her career working in the infrastructure sector. Her experience spans core and social infrastructure as well as renewable energy, with a particular focus on renewable energy and the energy transition.
Alongside a focus on European markets, she has led asset valuations across the US, Asia-Pacific and Africa. Her clients include infrastructure funds and asset managers, institutional investors and developers.
Commenting on her promotion, Palmer said: “I am looking forward to continuing to drive the growth of our exceptional team at Grant Thornton delivering expertise for our global infrastructure investment clients across this dynamic and ever-changing sector.
“We are seeing huge new investments in infrastructure at both national and international levels and the challenges and opportunities are varied and complex – I look forward to leading the team at this exciting time.”
Tomas Freyman, partner and head of valuations and modelling at Grant Thornton UK, added: “I am very pleased to see Jade recognised for her talents and hard work. She is exactly the right person to lead the infrastructure team, and I look forward to working with her at this pivotal time for both the UK and the international infrastructure industries.”
