The EU General Court rejected Broadcom’s request to suspend a European Commission information demand related to its $69 billion VMware acquisition completed in 2023, in an ongoing antitrust investigation. Broadcom attempted to shield documents related to its US legal advisers by invoking American legal privilege rules, but the court ruled that these documents are likely relevant to the investigation and that challenging such requests could weaken EU competition law enforcement efforts. The investigation focuses on changes Broadcom made to VMware’s cloud service provider program after the merger closed, following a complaint filed by CISPE, a trade group representing nearly 50 European cloud providers, on March 19, 2026. If the European Commission ultimately finds antitrust violations, remedies could range from behavioral commitments to structural changes that alter the economic logic of the deal.
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