Benjamin Sayagh

Banking & Finance; Direct Lending/Private Credit.

Benjamin Sayagh is a partner in the New York office of Milbank LLP and a member of the firm’s Leveraged Finance Group. Mr. Sayagh’s practice focuses on representing and counseling banks, direct lenders and other financial institutions in various financing transactions, primarily in the context of acquisition or other event-driven transactions. He also has experience advising clients in unitranche, buy-and-hold junior capital and mezzanine financings, debt restructurings and other work-out transactions.

Mr. Sayagh was ranked as a Rising Star Partner for Banking in IFLR1000’s United States (Nationwide) and New York rankings in 2023 and 2024. Mr. Sayagh was also named a Rising Star in the Banking and Finance category at Euromoney’s LMG Rising Stars Americas Awards 2020, which honors outstanding up-and-coming legal practitioners for their professional accomplishments and advocacy skills in their respective practice area.

Mr. Sayagh co-authored a chapter on “Loan Structures” in The Handbook of Loan Syndications and Trading, published by Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA) and has contributed articles to Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law and The International Comparative Legal Guide: Lending & Secured Finance.

George Washington University Law School, J.D.

Wheaton College, B.A.