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

Foo Yun Chee

Mon, August 3, 2026 astatine 10:57 AM CDT 1 min read

By Foo Yun Chee

BRUSSELS, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Broadcom connected Monday mislaid its bid to suspend ‌a European Union antitrust petition for U.S. ‌legal documents protected by U.S. ineligible nonrecreational privilege successful a lawsuit ​related to VMware, which it acquired successful 2023, aft an EU tribunal sided with EU regulators.

The U.S. chipmaker successful May asked the Luxembourg-based General Court for ‌an interim measurement ⁠against the European Commission, which acts arsenic the EU contention enforcer, aft it was ⁠hit with a request to contiguous documents produced extracurricular the EU.

It said the petition went against U.S. ​attorney-client privilege, ​which protects confidential communications ​between lawyers and their ‌clients. In the EU, this presumption covers lone communications betwixt a institution and its outer lawyers but not in-house lawyers.

The General Court, Europe's second-highest, rejected Broadcom's arguments.

"It is for the Commission to determine whether ‌a peculiar point of accusation ​is indispensable to alteration it ​to bring to ​light an infringement of the EU ‌competition rules," the justice said.

"If ​the undertaking nether ​investigation was itself capable to determine which documents are, successful its view, applicable for the ​purposes of that ‌investigation, that would earnestly undermine the Commission's ​powers of investigation," they said.

(Reporting by Foo Yun ​CheeEditing by Tomasz Janowski)