Aytan Dahukey is counsel in the Corporate Practice Group in the firm's Century City Office and is a member of the firm's Corporate Healthcare Team and Mergers & Acquisitions Team.
Areas of Practice
Mr. Dahukey's practice focuses on public and private mergers and acquisitions and general corporate counsel. He represents a wide variety of clients including independent physician associations, physician groups and other healthcare entities as well as companies in the fields of aerospace and defense, manufacturing, technology, personal services, retail and food services companies. He is admitted to both the California and New York Bar and also handles pro-bono adoption cases for pro-bono clients through Public Law Center's Children's Rights Program.
Experience
· Mergers and acquisitions of both private and public companies
· Private placements
· Distressed company M&A transactions
· General corporate representation
Representative Transactions
Represented Greater Newport Physicians Medical Group and Nautilus Healthcare Management Group, LLC in their sale to Memorial HealthCare System, the operator of one of the largest hospital foundations in California.
Represented a nationwide professional staffing agency in its leveraged sale of a minority interest to a major private equity firm and the related financing.
Represented Bristol Park Medical Group, a major Orange County managed care physician group in its sale to Memorial HealthCare System, the operator of one of the largest hospital foundations in California.
Ongoing representation of Mobile Messenger, the leading mobile solutions provider of marketing, distribution and monetization solutions for mobile device companies in corporate governance and related matters.
Represented a major Orange County managed care physician group in its add-on acquisition of a competing Orange County managed care physician group.
Represented an Oil and Gas oilfield waste management services in reorganization or its business and on-going corporate governance matters.
Represented Alliance Medical Group and Affinity Medical Group in side-by-side transactions in their sale to University Healthcare Alliance, an affiliate of Stanford Hospital.
Represented Two Chefs On A Roll, Inc. (TCOR) in the sale of its business to Bakkavor Group HF, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bakkavor London Limited (OMX ICE: BAKK).
Represented Talbert Medical Group, Inc., a medical group located in Los Angeles County and Orange County, California to HealthCare Partners Affiliates Medical Group, a Torrance, California-based healthcare organization.
Represented the members of Electric Visual Evolution, LLC, an international manufacturer and distributor of sport-oriented clothing ("EVE") in the sale of all of the outstanding membership interests of EVE to Volcom, Inc. (NASDAQGS: VLCM)
Represented a teleradiology company based in San Diego California in a recapitalization and investment by a NYSE listed national provider of outpatient diagnostic imaging services.
Represented a California medical group in its divestiture of its controlling interest in an ambulatory surgery center.
Represented Northrop Grumman Information Technology, Inc. in its divestiture of its National Support Services division.
Represented Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation in its acquisition of Sonoma Photonics, Inc.
Represented Northrop Grumman Corporation in its 2009 $850 Million registered debt offering.
Represented Etilize, Inc., a provider of aggregated product data to online retailers, distributors and resellers in its sale of a majority interest to Encodex International GmbH (Encodex), a wholly owned subsidiary of GfK AG, one of the largest market research companies in the world headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany.
Represented a regional supplier of bathroom and closet products in the purchase of two divisions of one of its competitors.
Represented the shareholders of Allied Veneer Company in a sale of assets to Forest Plywood Sales, Inc.
Represented National Technical Systems (NASDAQ: NTSC) in acquisition of Elliott Laboratories, Inc. for a combination of cash and stock of NTSC and related amendment and restatement of NTSC's credit facility.
Represented Napa Valley based restaurateur in private placement to raise capital for new 5 star restaurant project.
Represented National Technical Systems (NASDAQ: NTSC) in acquisition of United States Test Laboratory, L.L.C. and related amendment and restatement of credit facility.
Represented a medical device company in its preferred stock buyback transaction.
Memberships
· Member, American Bar Association
· Member, State Bar of California
· Member, State Bar of New York
· Member, Los Angeles County Bar Association
· Member, American Healthcare Lawyer Association
Articles
Healthcare Law Blog Articles
· Insurer to Purchase Vertically Integrated Medicare Advantage Plan/Provider, June 10, 2011
· Accountable Care Organizations: Payment Options for ACOs Pursuant to the Proposed Rule, May 24, 2011
· Proposed Rule: Legal Structure and Governance of ACOS, April 12, 2011