Bio

Aytan Dahukey is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in the firm’s Century City Office. He is the leader of the firm’s Private Equity team and is also a member of the firm’s Healthcare and Emerging Growth/Venture Capital teams. As an active member of these industry teams, Aytan enjoys a wide-ranging practice that spans across several sectors. He has represented private equity funds in numerous large leveraged buy-out, add-on and divestiture transactions and has also represented owners of a wide variety of private businesses in sales to private equity funds and other strategic investors. Aytan's practice focuses on public and private mergers and acquisitions and general corporate counseling representing a wide variety of healthcare-related for-profit and non-profit clients across the country. He regularly represents private equity funds, growth equity funds, search funds and other sponsors in platform structuring, acquisitions and growth investments in the healthcare services, health IT and medical device sectors, serves as outside general counsel and buy-side acquisition counsel for private equity- and growth-equity backed portfolio companies and also acts as lead outside general counsel and sell side M&A counsel for a variety of health insurance companies and health plans, independent physician associations, large single- and multi-specialty healthcare provider groups, behavioral health providers and institutions, urgent care providers, ambulatory surgery center providers, hospitals and hospital-affiliated foundations, home health and hospice agencies, provider management services organizations, digital health providers, healthcare IT companies, accountable care organizations (ACOs) and other providers of healthcare services. Aytan has assisted with cutting-edge transactions stemming from healthcare reform for several years. In addition to leading numerous recent high-profile merger and acquisition transactions in the health insurance and healthcare service spaces, he has assisted in the organization and structuring of multiple hospital foundation clinics and integration of physician practices with foundations and regularly works with clients in efforts to develop value-based care arrangements including joint-ventures, value-based and risk-based contracts and other innovative healthcare arrangements.