Strategic appointments in Australia and Singapore solidify ongoing build-out of enhanced global real asset capital advisory capabilities.
JLL today announced an expansion of its Asia Pacific Energy & Infrastructure platform with two strategic hires, Andy Powell and JC Champalaune, joining in regional positions. Set within its Asia Pacific Capital Markets business, JLL’s expanding practice will continue to meet industry demand for dedicated energy and infrastructure advisory solutions.
“Asia Pacific presents JLL’s clients with a wide range of opportunities to support the region’s diverse energy transition and infrastructure needs,” said James Cameron, Head of Energy & Infrastructure, Asia Pacific. “We continue to see new opportunities for dedicated energy and infrastructure clients as well as real estate players looking to move into broader real asset sectors such as battery storage. Given the diversity of opportunity and markets, the arrival of Andy and JC will allow us to provide the relevant sector and market expertise required by JLL’s clients to navigate this exciting opportunity.”
Powell joins JLL as Head of Energy & Infrastructure, Australia and New Zealand. Based in Sydney, he will be responsible for advising on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), capital raising on both the buy side and sell side, project finance and land acquisitions in the energy transition and wider infrastructure space. He joins JLL from Green Giraffe Advisory, an independent financial advisory firm, focused on energy transition. Powell also brings deep Australian market experience from Macquarie Group and KPMG.
Champalaune joins JLL to lead the Energy and Infrastructure team’s efforts in Asia ex India. Based in Singapore, he will likewise be responsible for advising clients across their M&A, capital raising and financing needs across both the established OECD renewables markets of Japan, Taiwan and Korea as well as active energy and infrastructure markets in ASEAN such as the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand. Champalaune joins JLL from Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation’s M&A team in Singapore, bringing significant Asian experience having previously held energy and infrastructure roles in Singapore and Thailand at BNP Paribas and ENGIE respectively.
According to JLL, ongoing investment in its dedicated energy and infrastructure offering in Asia Pacific aligns with the broader macro trends within the Asia Pacific economy. JLL also sees an increasing convergence as investors and developers consider adjacent infrastructure and commercial real estate opportunities within integrated and decarbonisation-focused real asset strategies.
“This broader investment is consistent with JLL’s commitment to be a global market leader in providing capital market solutions to the energy and infrastructure sector. We see a substantial need in Asia Pacific to help clients meet the accelerating thematics of decarbonisation, digitalisation, economic growth, and rapid urbanisation. There is a significant overlap in clients as well as market and sector thematics across the regional energy and infrastructure and real estate sectors. We have already see how a focused team, combined with JLL’s existing platform and full investment lifecycle approach can be a key differentiator to clients in the region,” says Stuart Crow, CEO, Capital Markets, Asia Pacific, JLL.
Powell and Champalaune will both oversee broader teams of energy and infrastructure specialists in Australia and Singapore and partner with JLL’s Capital Markets, Investment Banking and Debt Advisory teams across the region, focusing on origination of capital raising and transaction advisory opportunities for large infrastructure and renewable transactions serving institutional investors, private equity, asset managers, strategic infrastructure and renewables operators and developers, high net-worth individuals and family offices.
In March 2025, JLL expanded its Energy & Infrastructure capabilities with the acquisition of Javelin Capital, a US based Energy transition advisory firm. JLL’s new US capability, combined with an established and market leading EMEA presence and Asia Pacific team build out will allow the firm to consolidate its position as a globally connected capital advisor across the energy and infrastructure space.
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