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title: "FFL Partners invests in OCFO consulting firm Waylin Partners"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/22b3335d-e47c-4abd-aab2-34b7768120f4
source: "PE Hub"
original_url: https://www.pehub.com/ffl-partners-invests-in-ocfo-consulting-firm-waylin-partners/
category: "Finance"
topics: ["Finance & M&A"]
published: 2026-09-10T13:17:32.000Z
modified: 2026-09-11T07:30:27.587Z
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# FFL Partners invests in OCFO consulting firm Waylin Partners

**TL;DR:** FFL Partners has completed an investment in Waylin Partners, an Office of the CFO advisory firm, to accelerate its growth. The investment will be used to expand Waylin's recruitment, relationships, and AI-enabled offerings.

*originally published in PE Hub on 2026-09-10. [Read the original](https://www.pehub.com/ffl-partners-invests-in-ocfo-consulting-firm-waylin-partners/).*

## Story

FFL Partners has completed an undisclosed investment in Waylin Partners, an Office of the CFO advisory firm providing forward-deployed finance engineers to private equity-backed companies. The investment will be used to accelerate Waylin’s recruitment of talent, expand its relationships with private equity firms and their portfolio companies, and advance the company’s AI-enabled offerings.

Headquartered in Chicago, Waylin’s forward-deployed delivery model serves as an internal extension of the Office of the CFO, providing AI-enabled financial planning and analysis, data engineering and analytics, technical accounting, and performance improvement services for private equity-backed portfolio companies.

Founded in 2022, Waylin employs more than 50 forward-deployed finance engineers and has completed more than 300 engagements with portfolio companies since its inception.

> “With the support of FFL, Waylin is well-positioned to benefit from industry trends such as longer portfolio company hold periods, the increased importance of Data & AI as a value creation lever, and structural shortages of OCFO talent,” added Lauren Graham, director at FFL. “This transaction is also another great example of FFL’s ability to identify attractive investment opportunities through our proprietary Sector Exploration and Expertise Development program.”

FFL’s investment in Waylin is the firm’s second in its Specialty Consulting to Private Capital SEED, following its investment in Accordion Partners. Financial terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.

FFL Partners is a middle-market private equity firm that has been investing in high-quality companies since 1997, with over $7 billion of cumulative capital commitments.

## Entities

- private equity (topic)
- Finance (sector)
- PE Hub (publication)
- investment growth (topic)
- FFL Partners (investor)
- consulting firm (topic)
- Waylin Partners (company)
- FFL Partners investment in Waylin Partners (deal)
- Lauren Graham (person)
- Accordion Partners (company)
- ai enabled services (topic)

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Originally reported by PE Hub (https://www.pehub.com/ffl-partners-invests-in-ocfo-consulting-firm-waylin-partners/). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/22b3335d-e47c-4abd-aab2-34b7768120f4).