Dibb Lupton Alsop has scored a major coup in its bid to establish a full service office in Hong Kong by striking an exclusive alliance with Charlton & Co, the Hong Kong firm recently set up by ex-Ede Charlton partner Julia Charlton.

Charlton, whose former firm was unceremoniously dumped from the Arthur Andersen network in September last year, has moved into joint offices with Dibbs in Hong Kong’s Bank of China Building.