Sure, U.S. companies will have plenty of pressures to keep their compliance departments busy in 2011—but they’ll need to keep a close eye on new regulatory and enforcement plans across Europe as well.

Global regulators, accounting standard setters, and foreign enforcement agencies have a full pipeline of new initiatives, many of which will affect U.S. businesses. Britain is likely to be the most productive source of compliance headaches, lawyers predict, especially with its new anti-bribery laws. Here are 10 overseas issues to keep on the radar.