K. Barry Schochet

K. Barry Schochet is General Counsel to Executive Action, LLC. He first traveled to Washington in 1973 at the request of U.S. Senator Sam J. Ervin to serve as Counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee.

After time in private practice, he returned to Washington to work in the U.S. Congress as foreign policy and defense advisor to Senator Richard Stone of Florida. From 1978-1981 he served as Staff Director of the Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

In 1981, Schochet was made a partner in the law firm of Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg and Tunney of Los Angeles, California and Washington, D.C., establishing an international business practice within the firm.

Since 1986, he has been in private law and business consulting, where he has advised and represented both U.S. and foreign clients on a variety of business and political issues. These include public-private partnerships between private sector and government institutions, developing business partnerships between U.S. and foreign companies, oversight of complex international reinsurance settlements, and promotion of U.S. business interests in overseas markets.

Additionally, Schochet was a founding limited partner in the Cheesecake Factory restaurant corporation and has assisted in its development throughout the United States.

Schochet is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (B.A.) and Emory University School of Law (J.D.).

He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has served as Senior Advisor to the Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation of the University of California.

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