Mark E. Lutes

Overview

Community Leadership

Mark Lutes Receives the Caritas Award [Left to Right: Archbishop Weurl, Doug Hastings, Mark Lutes, and Steven Epstein.]

Mark Lutes serves on the President's Council of Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Washington, DC, which honored him with The Caritas Award, its highest recognition of volunteers.

Mark has also completed several decades of service in leadership in the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts of America organizations. Additionally, after more than thirty years in the bass section, he is the longest-serving member of the Our Lady of Lourdes parish choir.

Photo: Mark Lutes Receives the Caritas Award. [Left to Right: Archbishop Weurl, Doug Hastings, Mark Lutes, and Steven Epstein.]

Focus Areas

Experience

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Advised Summit Partners on the $1.4 billion acquisition of the largest health maintenance organization in Puerto Rico. Mark and his team handled the complex state and federal regulatory schemes, approvals in multiple jurisdictions, and compensation from the feds and state to the health plan and from the health plan to the provider network.
Achieved a significant appellate victory for a longtime hospital system client in an antitrust case brought by a former competitor. Mark and his team convinced the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to affirm the judgment of the lower court, dismissing with prejudice all of the plaintiffs’ 11 antitrust claims under the Sherman and Clayton Acts against the hospital system.
Managed diligence and health regulatory issues pertaining to a $4.4 billion SPAC acquisition of a Medicare Advantage risk-assuming physician group.
Advised the sponsors in the merger of Great Lakes Caring, National Home Health Care, and Jordan Health Service, a deal that created one of the largest home-based care services in the United States.
Led a team in successfully reversing a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services action to exclude a private equity-backed post-acute company from Medicare participation.
Led a team that advised Apax on regulatory matters in all phases of the acquisition, growth, and successful $1 billion sale of a generic drug company.
Served as regulatory counsel to Apax in the $6.3 billion acquisition of KCI, a life sciences wound management company (now Acelity).
Managed regulatory support to Altaris in the carve-out of Kindeva, a global drug delivery business, from 3M for $650 million.

Recognition

Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business: District of Columbia—Healthcare, "Leader in Their Field" (2010 to 2024)
The Best Lawyers in America^©: Health Care Law (2017 to 2023, 2025); "Lawyer of the Year," Health Care Law, Washington, DC (2025)
The Legal 500 United States: Healthcare: Advice to Health Insurers, Healthcare: Advice to Service Providers, and M&A: Middle Market (Sub $500 Million) (2014 to 2024)
Washington, DC, Super Lawyers: Health Care and Antitrust Litigation (2007 to 2010, 2013 to 2024)
Who's Who Legal: Healthcare (2020)
BTI Client Service All-Stars: Recognized for superior client focus, innovative thought leadership, unmatched business understanding, legal skills, outsized value, and outstanding results (2016)

Credentials

Education

Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., with honors, 1983)
Rutgers University (M.P.A., 1979)
- Eagleton Institute of Politics, H.E.W. Public Service Fellow
Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (B.S.F.S., with honors, 1978)