Broadcom’s $61 Billion VMware Deal Hit by EU Court Challenge (1)

Broadcom Inc.’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware Inc. faces scrutiny from European Union judges, after a cloud computing group contested the bloc’s approval of one of the world’s biggest tech deals.

The Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe, or CISPE, filed a legal complaint at the EU General Court on Thursday, arguing the European Commission failed to impose any conditions to prevent Broadcom abusing its market power.

The group, backed by companies including Amazon Web Services, said it has “consistently raised alarms” to the EU’s antitrust arm over allegedly harmful Broadcom practices, but that “no substantive action” has been ...