Livia Hong

Livia Hong is a Partner at Rahmat Lim & Partners, specializing in Capital Markets Law. Her primary areas of practice cover capital markets, real estate investment trusts (REITs), and mergers and acquisitions, with experience advising on initial public offerings (IPOs), equity securities offerings, and transactions requiring shareholders' approval for public listed companies.

Livia regularly advises issuers, sponsors, underwriters, and institutional investors on both domestic and cross‑border transactions. She also advises on joint venture and shareholder arrangements, fund and collective investment scheme formation, and insurance laws. Notable transactions include acting as counsel to the bookrunners and underwriters for the IPO of Prolintas Infra Business Trust, the first business trust in Malaysia; advising IGB REIT on its acquisition of The Mall, Mid Valley Southkey for RM2.65 billion; advising Pavilion REIT on its acquisition of Pavilion Bukit Jalil for RM2.2 billion and a private placement raising up to RM1.27 billion; and advising IGB Commercial REIT on its IPO and listing on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia.

Livia holds an LL.B. (Hons) from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2014). She was called to the Bar of England & Wales by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple in 2015 and was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 2016. She was seconded to the REITs team of Allen & Gledhill LLP in Singapore in 2019.

She has been recognised as a “Leading Associate” in Capital Markets by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific.