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4 unusual facts about Xavier Romeu


Puerto Rico Industrial Incentives Fund

Xavier Romeu was the President of the PRIIF from April 1999 to December 2000 and held two of three seats on the Fund's Board of Directors.

Xavier Romeu

After receiving a law degree from Columbia University, he worked as a litigator for the New York law firms of Sullivan & Cromwell and Proskauer Rose.

He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Puerto Rican Bar Association (“PRBA”) and chaired the Federal Affairs Committee of the PRBA and Hispanic National Bar Association.

He is a former Puerto Rican-American politician, and an advocate of statehood for Puerto Rico, and of the appointment of Puerto Rican-Americans to the federal bench, most notably of current Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, whom he served as a law clerk.



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