Ka-on Li is the co-leader of Jones Day's IP Transactions team. She works closely with clients to successfully structure and execute IP, technology, and commercial transactions to achieve high-stakes business objec tives. She is an experienced IP and technology lawyer whose practice focuses on transactions for clients active in the life sciences and technology fields. Ka-on drafts and negotiates contracts involving R&D  research and development), collaborations, licensing and commercialization and manufacturing and distri bution transactions. She also advises clients on their strategies relating to IP, AI (artificial intelligence) and data.

Ka-on has solid experience in assisting emerging and established businesses on their cross-border transactions. She has assisted clients both in the U.S. and outside of the U.S. seeking to commercialize their assets abroad. She has represented life science companies and technology at all stages, from formation to exit. She has drafted and negotiated some of the most significant collaborations and strategic agreements and alliances between industry entrepreneurs, service providers, acquirers, and investors. Much of her experience involves working on deals involving the commercialization of products driven by the convergence of multiple technologies, such as AI drug discovery, digital health and AI-driven platforms.

She has acted for clients on a full range of M&A, private equity, and financing transactions involving do mestic and foreign IP and technology assets on the buy-side and the sell-side. She also frequently assists with the resolution of life science collaboration disputes.