Guat Hong was admitted to practice in Malaysia in 2006. She graduated with a First Class Honours in law from the University of London and was the recipient of the Tun Hamid Omar Foundation prize for graduating top of her class in the Certificate of Legal Practice examinations. She subsequently continued her studies at Cambridge University as a Shell-Cambridge Centenary scholar where she obtained her Master in Law, specialising in Corporate and Commercial law. In addition to degrees in law, she holds a postgraduate degree in biosafety in plant biotechnology from the University of Ghent, Belgium.
Guat Hong first trained and qualified in an international law firm, specialising in the practice areas of dispute resolution and intellectual property. She then went on to be part of the intellectual property team of the world’s largest publicly-funded agricultural research organisation. In that capacity, she worked as an international intellectual property specialist involved in advising her clients on issues involving intellectual assets management, policy and law surrounding biological and agricultural resources, the environment and contract law. She also advised on various public-private partnerships, negotiated research collaboration/consortium contracts and material transfer agreements, and provided training to scientists, research managers and other intellectual property professionals. She was an integral part of a team that raised approximately €5 Million to set up an international community of intellectual property practitioners based in both the developed and developing world.
At Lo Chambers, Guat Hong advises on corporate and commercial matters, construction law, real estate transactions, probate, and dispute resolution. She remains a trusted consultant for non-profits in Asia and Latin America on various international law and intellectual property matters, especially in the field of agriculture.
She is a qualified adjudicator with the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC) and an accredited mediator empanelled with the Malaysian International Mediation Centre (MIMC). Since 2021, she has been appointed as a coach and trainer with the MIMC.