Eventually we closed, and it was a great deal for everyone. But I called it the deal from hell because getting there felt like going down into Dante’s inferno. In fact, it was such an extraordinary process that I wanted to memorialize it. So I commissioned a painting that depicted the key participants and their roles, along with various scenes over the last year. The final result was a six-by-five-foot oil painting that depicted Dante’s (or in our case Itel CFO, Jim Knox’s) journey through hell.
