Dec 11, 2025
A European cloud industry group has told a European court that EU antitrust regulators failed to properly analyse the competition risks before clearing Broadcom‘s $69 billion acquisition of VMware. The challenge was detailed in a document seen by Reuters.
The Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) said in a December 3 submission to the General Court that the European Commission committed an error in law and a manifest error of assessment regarding the deal’s impact on the market for server virtualisation software. CISPE, which counts Microsoft and Amazon as associate members, challenged the Commission’s 2023 approval of the deal in July.
The group’s court document argued that the EU competition watchdog’s reasoning was flawed and cited warnings from customers and industry associations. “By failing to assess the effects of the Transaction on the market for server virtualisation software, the Commission committed…
