Cyrus Abbassi

Cyrus Abbassi is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in the firm's New York office and member of the Private Equity and Healthcare Industry teams.

Areas of Practice

Cyrus is widely recognized for his technical proficiency, creative solutions and sophisticated negotiation strategies in leading a variety of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, growth equity investments, divestitures and joint ventures with an emphasis on health care, professional services and other regulated industry transactions. Among other milestones, he is noted for leading his clients through multiple $1B+ sale events.

His regular clients include private equity funds, portfolio companies, independent sponsors, entrepreneurs, physician practices, ambulatory surgery centers and other facilities, health systems, managed care organizations, management services organizations, and veterinary platforms.

Cyrus is particularly recognized for having a nationally prominent ambulatory surgery center and private equity/strategic joint venture practice with a focus on ASC-oriented specialties like ophthalmology, gastroenterology, orthopaedic surgery and dermatology.

Experience

• Represented a regional gastroenterology group and multiple affiliated ambulatory surgery centers in connection with a sale to one of the largest gastroenterology platforms in the United States.
• Represented multiple ambulatory surgery centers in an aggregate sale to a large national strategic ambulatory surgery center operator.
• Represented a national dermatology platform in multiple acquisitions and regulatory matters.
• Represented a national veterinary provider in its sale to a national platform in one of the largest animal health transactions ever recorded.
• Represented a private equity fund in its platform acquisition and integrated of two SaaS businesses.
• Represented a private equity-backed ophthalmology and retina platform in numerous transactions of medical practices and ambulatory surgery centers.
• Represented a regional veterinary provider in its sale to a private equity-backed veterinary platform.
• Represented a private equity fund in numerous growth equity investments across the healthcare and veterinary industries.
• Represented a regional dermatology platform in its platform sale to a private equity fund.
• Represented a large multi-specialty physician practice in its sale to a private equity fund.
• Represented a private equity fund in its acquisition of an orthopaedic platform.
• Represented a private equity fund in a variety of structured equity and “equity kicker” transactions.
• Represented a private equity fund in its investment in an applied behavior analysis (ABS) and respite services business.
• Represented a private equity fund in its platform acquisition of a home health and hospice business.
• Represented the physician-practice arm of a national payor in numerous transactions and telemedicine roll-outs.
• Represented several national veterinary aggregators in numerous transactions.
• Represented a private equity fund in a growth equity investment in a specialty veterinary group.
• Represented several urology practices in sales to private equity-backed urology platforms.
• Represented several national ambulatory surgery center platforms in numerous transactions.
• Represented a gastroenterology group in its sale to a private equity fund.
• Represented a regional dental support organization in its platform sale to a private equity fund.
• Represented a national dental support organization in a variety of structural and regulatory matters.

Honors

Ones to Watch - Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Best Lawyers, 2023-2025

Articles

Healthcare Law Blog Posts

• "Four Takeaways from the Orthopedics Today Conference 2025," February 3, 2025

Media Mentions

Speaking Engagements

• Cyrus regularly speaks on topics relating to health care and animal health across various outlets.

Events