Robert Lass, managing director of Radius Equity Partners, belted out Ray Charles' "Georgia On My Mind" in front of distressed investors and attorneys at The Venetian Hotel's Zeffirino Ristorante. Before his life as a private equity investor, Lass was a Grammy-nominated Jazz music producer.
* "Sometimes I feel like a therapist, getting a company to come out of its shell."--Robert Hockett, principal at DDJ Capital Management, on convincing officials that bankrupt companies aren't necessarily bad.