Article | June 30, 2026
FCPA Enforcement: Where the Bribery Actually Happened
FCPA enforcement trends analyzed by geography. Discover where bribery risk is concentrated and how it impacts global compliance, investigations and risk management.
Mr. Bolling provides forensic accounting, damages, and valuation-related services in complex commercial disputes, with experience in intellectual property, accounting-intensive matters, and selected digital-asset-related engagements.
Chase Bolling provides forensic accounting, damages, and valuation-related services in complex commercial disputes. His experience includes intellectual property and other accounting-intensive matters across litigation, arbitration, and advisory engagements.
Mr. Bolling has worked on matters involving patents, trademarks, trade secrets, breach of contract claims, and digital-asset-related disputes. His work has addressed damages, valuation, licensing, revenue recognition, earnout-related issues, solvency, and other accounting analyses and financial reporting questions. He has supported matters across a range of industries, including technology and digital assets, life sciences, oil and gas, industrials and manufacturing, sports-related matters, government contracting, and energy-related issues.
Prior to joining Secretariat, Mr. Bolling served as an Assistant Controller in the private industrials and manufacturing sector, where he supported financial reporting, cost accounting, treasury and lender relations, inventory, payroll, and risk management activities. Mr. Bolling holds a BBA in Accounting and an MBA in Management from King University. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) licensed in Tennessee, and Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF) from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
FCPA Enforcement: Where the Bribery Actually Happened
FCPA enforcement trends analyzed by geography. Discover where bribery risk is concentrated and how it impacts global compliance, investigations and risk management.
Secretariat is pleased to share that 56 of our experts have been recognized in the Lexology Index 2026 Construction report for their outstanding work on complex construction disputes and claims around the world. With 12 experts named as Global Elite Thought Leaders—the report’s most exclusive ranking, achieved by only 5% of listed professionals—Secretariat has earned the No. 1 spot in this category for the second year in a row among more than 750 ranked firms.
Eric Poer, a Managing Director in Secretariat’s Global Investigations & Disputes practice, was retained by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to serve as their forensic accounting expert in a high-profile securities fraud dispute.