Aytan Dahukey

Aytan Dahukey is an associate in the Corporate Practice Group in the firm's Century City Office and is a member of the firm's Corporate Healthcare Practice Group.

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 aerospace and defense companies, manufacturing companies and food service 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.

Education

• J.D., Brooklyn Law School, 2004, Notes and Comments Editor, Brooklyn Journal of International Law
• B.A., University of Arizona, 2001, Cum Laude

Admissions

• New York
• California

Experience

• Mergers and acquisitions of both private and public companies
• Private placements
• Distressed company M&A transactions
• General corporate representation

Representative Transactions

Represented a California medical group in its divestiture of its controlling interest in an ambulatory surgery center.

Represented a major medical group/physician network in a merger/stock sale transaction.

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 a medical device company in its preferred stock buyback transaction.

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 nationwide professional staffing agency in its leveraged sale of a minority interest to a major private equity firm and the related financing.

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 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 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

Memberships

• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, State Bar of California
• Member, State Bar of New York
• Member, Los Angeles County Bar Association