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. Crawford has experience analyzing engineering, construction, and operations issues on capital projects across multiple sectors over the last decade, specializing in damage quantifications, schedule delay assessments, and project management standard of care evaluations.
Houston
Cody Crawford has extensive domestic and international experience involving engineering, construction, and operations of facilities and infrastructure. His experience includes capital projects in a variety of industries, such as upstream oil and gas facilities, pipelines, refineries, gas processing plants, LNG terminals, power plants, bridges, diversion dams, water treatment facilities, manufacturing plants, sports complexes, hotels, hospitals, and various other developments.
Mr. Crawford has assessed construction claims valued from $2 million to over $1 billion related to schedule delays, labor productivity, cost overruns, design changes, construction defects, contractor terminations, project acceleration, deductive change orders, back charges, differing site conditions, and other project changes. He analyzes project documents—such as contractual scope of work requirements, project specifications, and project controls data—to determine causation, analyze schedule delays, and quantify damages for claims.
Mr. Crawford has been designated as an independent expert in multiple district courts and has provided litigation testimony.
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.