Aytan Y Dahukey

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.

Areas of Practice: Healthcare

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. His clients include health insurance companies and health plans, independent physician associations, large single- and multi-specialty physician groups, hospitals and hospital-affiliated foundations, home health and hospice agencies, provider management services organizations, healthcare IT companies and accountable care organizations (ACOs) as well as private equity funds and strategic investors that participate in the healthcare sector.

Aytan has assisted with a variety of cutting-edge transactions stemming from recent healthcare reform. In addition to leading numerous recent high-profile merger and acquisition transactions in the health insurance and physician service spaces, he has assisted ACOs in formation and applications to participate in Medicare shared savings plans and has assisted in the organization and structuring of multiple California hospital foundation clinics and integration of physician practices with foundations.

Aytan also has extensive familiarity with healthcare-specific compensation and contracting arrangements (e.g., pay-for-performance, shared risk pools, HCC-RAF, etc.) and their effects on physician-related strategic transactions. He is also experienced in identifying and addressing complex healthcare-related regulatory issues ranging from information privacy to anti-kickback and federal Stark issues.

Areas of Practice: General Private Equity / Strategic M&A

Aytan also possesses deep experience representing clients in the fields of aerospace and defense, manufacturing, technology, personal services, retail and food services.

Scope of Practice:

Aytan has extensive experience advising clients and negotiating mergers, asset and stock acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buy-outs, professional services and management services arrangements, employment and independent contractor arrangements (both for executive officers and for physicians and ancillary providers), and other strategic alliances and also regularly provides counseling to clients with respect to formation, private placements, corporate governance, physician and ancillary provider contracting and other day-to-day operational matters.

Aytan also handles pro-bono adoption cases for pro-bono clients through Public Law Center's Children's Rights Program and is a member of the Firm’s pro-bono committee.

Honors

Best Lawyers in America, Best Lawyers, 2019-2020

Top 40 Under 40, Daily Journal, 2017

Super Lawyer, Healthcare, Super Lawyers, 2017, 2019-2020

Southern California Rising Star, Super Lawyers, 2014-2016

Healthcare, Legal 500, 2015-2018

Mergers and Acquisitions, Legal 500, 2015

Rising Star, Association for Corporate Growth Los Angeles

Law360's Rising Star, Healthcare

Insights

Articles

•Post-Dynamex Considerations For Calif. Health Care Cos.
Law360, 05.25.2018

Healthcare Law Blog Posts

• Highlights From The Wall Street Journal’s Health Forum, March 31,2020
• Notes from the 2019 Health Evolution Summit: Promoting Quality Healthcare and a Quality Healthcare Experience, April 18, 2019
• Day 3 Notes from the 2019 JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, January 10, 2019
• Day 2 Notes from the 2019 JPMorgan Healthcare Conference, January 9, 2019
• Day 1 Notes on the 2019 JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, January 8, 2019
• Healthcare Industry Companies Must Be Wary of Classifying Any Workers As Independent Contractors, In Light of the California Supreme Court’s Dynamex Ru ling, May 18, 2018
• Day 4 Notes on the 2018 JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, January 12, 2018
• Day 3 Notes on the 2018 JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, January 11, 2018
• Notes on Day 2 of the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, January 10, 2018
• Day 1 Notes from the 2018 JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, January 9, 2018
• CMS Aims to Nix Obama-Era Payment Models, August 30, 2017
• CEO of Molina Healthcare Discusses Implications of cuts to Affordable Care Act, May 1, 2017
• Food for Thought (and Health): Day 2 Notes from the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, January 11, 2017
• Looking Forward/Looking Backward - Day 1 Notes from the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference, January 10, 2017
• Medicare ACO v.3.0-More Risk, More Money? March 12, 2015
• Task Force of Healthcare Providers and Insurers are Shifting to Incentive Based Contracts, February 5, 2015
• Pioneer ACOs: Slowed Health Spending, Improved Quality and More Drop Outs? October 21, 2014
• Final Meaningful Use Rule: CMS Loosens its Grip, September 15, 2014
• CMS Care Coordination Payments - A Boon to Doctors and Patients but Patient Participation Will be Essential, August 19, 2014
• Time to Revamp Primary Care? March 15, 2013
•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

Media Mentions

•Loaded for Bear
Los Angeles Business Journal, 04.06.2020
•Top 40 Under 40: Aytan Y. Dahukey
Daily Journal, 04.12.2017
•Rising Star: Sheppard Mullin's Aytan Dahukey
Law360, 05.01.2014

Speaking Engagements

•Speaker, Maximizing Value: Running a Smooth Sales Process, Autism Investor Summit 2019, February 12, 2019
•Moderator and Speaker, Payor Alignment Plate Tectonics - What’s Shaking?,” Health Evolution Summit, April 19, 2018
•Moderator, Inve$ting in Our Future...Getting a Handle on the Healthcare Market, Opus Healthcare Panel, October 12, 2017
•Speaker, Legal Structure & Liabilities, Huntington Neurophysiology Symposium, September 15, 2017
•Moderator and Speaker, $$Healthcare$$...What’s the Deal with Healthcare M&A?, Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Conference, November 10, 2016
•Speaker, M&A and Private Equity Issues in Healthcare, June 17, 2015
•Speaker, The Affordable Care Act - What Employers Need to do to Comply, California Grocers Association Webinar Series, November 2013
•Moderator and Speaker, Physician Medical Groups M&A: Buying, Selling and Valuing, June 20, 2013
•Moderator, Patients, Payors & Piggy Banks: Healthcare M&A in a Post-Obama Caremageddon World, February 20, 2013

Events

•Webinar: Navigating COVID-19 Labor/Employment Challenges in the Workplace
via Zoom, 03.19.2020

•Second Annual Autism Investor Summit
02.12.2020

•Connecting the Disruptors Healthcare Conference
HUNN GROUP, January 29-30, 2020

•Value Creation Starts with the Patient: Value-Based Care Meets Behavioral Health
01.14.2020

•Sheppard Mullin Panel Discussion Luncheon in Conjunction with the 2019 Health Evolution Summit
The Biggest Healthcare Opportunity in the Next 5 Years is....?, Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel, 04.11.2019

•Inve$ting in Our Future...Getting a Handle on the Healthcare Market
Sheppard Mullin: 1901 Avenue of the Stars Suite 1600 Los Angeles, CA 90067, 10.12.2017

•In-Hospital Neurodiagnostic Services Symposium 2017
Symposium 2017, 09.15.2017