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Broadcom’s VMware contract changes draw questions from EU antitrust officials

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 27 Mar 2024 10:55
  • 27 Mar 2024 10:55
US tech hardware giant Broadcom has been quizzed by EU antitrust enforcers over allegations it has rewritten the customer contracts of its new subsidiary VMware, MLex has learned.
“The commission has received information suggesting that Broadcom is changing the conditions of VMware’s software licensing and support,” a spokesperson for the

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Nicholas Hirst

Chief Correspondent


Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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