Grant Thornton promotes Jade Palmer to partner and Head of Infrastructure Valuations and Modelling team
Leading business and financial advisor, Grant Thornton UK has promoted Jade Palmer to the partnership and also to lead the firm’s Infrastructure Valuations and Modelling practice. Jade was previously a director in the team and takes up the position immediately.
Jade has worked in the infrastructure sector her whole career, joining Grant Thornton in 2018 as a manager. Since her promotion to Director in 2021, she has successfully built a best-in-class team focusing on valuation and modelling throughout the infrastructure sector.
The Infrastructure Valuations and Modelling practice covers end-to-end support across the transaction lifecycle for infrastructure and energy assets providing support both for transactional and financial reporting purposes.
Jade is a sector expert and market commentator across infrastructure and energy regularly contributing to thought leadership and industry events. Her experience spans core infrastructure, social infrastructure and renewable energy with a particular focus on the renewable energy and energy transition sector.
Based in London, alongside focusing on the European markets, Jade’s also has extensive experience leading on detailed asset valuations across the globe including the US, APAC and Africa.
Her clients predominantly include infrastructure funds and asset managers, institutional investors and developers.
Commenting on her promotion and new leadership role, Jade 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, 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.”