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Arthur Yermash

Partner

Westbury

(631) 738-9100 ext. 304

Arthur Yermash is a corporate lawyer who provides practical, business-focused guidance to clients. Since launching his career at CMM over a decade ago, Arthur has directly supported the General Counsel and full legal and business teams for a national retailer, serving as their go-to resource and primary outside counsel on an extraordinarily wide range of business and employment matters. He has also represented Long Island and NYC companies in countless business-related matters and transactions from the routine to the complex, with a particular emphasis on guiding businesses through labor and employment issues from an employer perspective. These roles have enabled Arthur to develop deep experience advising corporate clients on all aspects of their businesses.

Arthur chairs the firm’s Cannabis Law practice group, providing critical guidance for cannabis businesses, entrepreneurs, and service providers on a wide range of matters in this emerging market. His work with cannabis businesses includes entity formation and industry-specific agreements, regulatory compliance and licensing, as well as commercial leasing matters and M&A.

As employment counsel, Arthur has successfully defended employers in hundreds of investigations before regulatory and government agencies including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the U.S. and N.Y.S. Departments of Labor, the N.Y.S. Attorney General’s Office, state and county Human Rights Divisions and Commissions, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). He also counsels clients on critical employment practices and policies regarding hiring, termination, payment of wages, paid and unpaid leave, training, and benefits programs.

Arthur also leads the firm’s robust commercial leasing practice. Arthur developed the strategy for the renegotiation of nearly 1,000 commercial leases nationwide for a major retailer at breakneck speed in the early days of the pandemic, a critical hands-on role that ultimately saved the client significant money and gave them the ability to adapt their business plan for unprecedented circumstances. This tenant-side work, coupled with his experience negotiating a wide range of commercial leasing transactions on behalf of landlords, enables Arthur to negotiate creative and effective solutions to lease disputes. His leasing work spans office leases, ground leases, master leases, subleases, triple-net leases, and sale-leaseback throughout Long Island, New York City, and throughout the country.

Arthur’s substantial corporate experience also enables him to help clients grow their businesses and footprints by providing solution-focused counsel on asset purchases and sales, stock purchases and sales, and other forms of business sales and acquisitions. Arthur has drafted and negotiated hundreds of contracts for various business-related matters including licensing, supply, financing, and distribution agreements. As part of his corporate focus, he also has significant experience working with nonprofit organizations through startup and development initiatives, routine operational matters, and more complex concerns including compliance, fiduciary responsibility, and board member obligations.

Arthur is fluent in Russian.

Education
Baruch College, CUNY (Macaulay Honors College), B.B.A.
Touro College, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, J.D.

Admissions
New York

Boards, Associations, and Leadership
Member, Touro Law Alumni Council and Alumni Association
Member, Hauppauge Industrial Association-LI (HIA-LI)
Member, New York State Bar Association
Member, Suffolk County Bar Association

Recognitions

Who’s Who in Commercial Real Estate, Long Island Business News (2022)
Top Lawyers of Long Island, Herald Community Newspapers (2019)
Leadership in Law Award, Long Island Business News (2016)
Who’s Who in Labor Law, Long Island Business News
Who’s Who in Corporate Law, Long Island Business News

In the News

Articles by Arthur Yermash

Lectures & Presentations

April 2023: Long Island Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, “Cannabis Fraud Risk”

September 2022: Stony Brook Small Business Development Center, “Navigating Your Commercial Lease Agreement During Inflation”

April 2022: Entrepreneurs Across America Restaurant Coalition, “Cannabis Law for the Hospitality Industry”

February 2022: Miller Business Center, “Into the Weeds of New York’s Emerging Cannabis Industry”

November 2021: CMM CLE Series, “Cannabis Update”

June 2021: CMM CLE Series, “Employment Litigation Case Study”

April 2019: Westbury-Carle Place Chamber of Commerce, “Networking Principles”

February 2019: CMM CLE Series, “Issues in Corporate Leasing”

June 2018: CMM CLE Series, “Due Diligence in Mergers & Acquisitions”

December 2017: HIA-LI Human Resources Committee, “Non-Compete Updates for Employers”

September 2017: CMM Business Breakfast, “Labor & Employment Update 2017,” panelist with Irv Miljoner of the Long Island District Office of U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage & Hour Division

September 2017: Miller Business Resource Center, “LLCs, LLPs, DBAs, & More: The Alphabet Soup of Entity Selection”

January 2017: Miller Business Resource Center“Nuts & Bolts of Forming a 501(c)(3)”

October 2016: Stony Brook University Small Business Development Center, “Hot Topics in Labor & Employment”

February 2016: CMM East End Executive Breakfast: “Labor & Employment Update 2016,” panelist with Irv Miljoner of the Long Island District Office of U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage & Hour Division

November 2015: Stony Brook University Small Business Development Center, “Business Basics”