The private-equity firm’s investments include pasta and sauce maker Buitoni and the Marie’s salad dressing brand. : Brynwood Partners, a buyout shop that targets consumer products, has raised its largest investment pool since the firm’s founding nearly 40 years ago. Greenwich, Conn.-based Brynwood said it wrapped up its Brynwood Partners IX fund with more than $750 million, or around 16% more than it collected for a predecessor vehicle that closed on $649 million in 2018. News, data and analysis to help you find opportunities, and to follow the broad trends in dealmaking, investing and regulation.