Broadcom loses court bid to suspend EU antitrust request for US legal papers

Broadcom just lost a round in what’s shaping up to be one of the more consequential antitrust fights in European tech regulation. The EU General Court dismissed the company’s request to suspend an information demand from the European Commission, specifically one that seeks documents related to Broadcom’s US legal advisers. The ruling effectively tells Broadcom that EU regulators can, in fact, ask for those papers. And that trying to challenge such requests could, in the court’s words, weaken enforcement efforts in EU competition law. What’s actually happening here Broadcom completed its acquisition of VMware in 2023, a deal that drew regulatory attention from the jump. Now the European Commission is investigating changes Broadcom made to VMware’s cloud service provider program after the merger closed. The complaint driving the investigation comes from CISPE, the Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe, a trade group representing nearly 50 European cloud providers. Microsoft and Amazon sit as associate members. CISPE filed its latest complaint against Broadcom on March 19, 2026, alleging that post-merger changes to VMware’s cloud program have effectively excluded numerous ...