Wake Up Call: Six Firms Lead Broadcom’s $61 Billion VMware Buy

In this column, legal tech company DocuSign hired a big tech veteran to fill its recently vacated CLO role; California’s top court extended a pandemic inspired measure that lets recent law grads get provisional licenses; O’Melveny tripled its space in Dallas.

• Leading off, Wachtell Lipton and O’Melveny & Myers are counseling computer chipmaker Broadcom Inc. on its agreement to buy cloud-computing company VMware Inc. for about $61 billion. Cleary Gottlieb is advising Broadcom on regulatory aspects of the deal, which is the biggest ever for a semiconductor maker. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher is counseling Michael Dell-backed VMware, according to a ...