Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe, a trade body representing dozens of European cloud companies, has filed a lawsuit with the European General Court seeking to annul the European Commission’s clearance of Broadcom Inc.’s $61 billion takeover of VMware. In its filing dated 24 July, CISPE argues the Commission committed legal and analytical errors by approving the transaction last year without imposing safeguards to curb potential abuses of market power. The group says Broadcom has since unilaterally terminated contracts, introduced restrictive multi-year licences and raised prices for VMware software—sometimes by a factor of ten—actions it claims are harming cloud providers, hospitals, universities and local authorities that rely on the technology. CISPE contends the Commission ignored repeated warnings that the deal would undermine competition in Europe’s cloud-computing market and failed to protect customers from being locked into Broadcom hardware and software. The trade body is asking the court to overturn the approval, a process that could force Brussels to reassess the merger or impose behavioral remedies. Neither Broadcom nor the Commission immediately commented on the court challenge. Legal analysts note that overturning a completed merger approval is rare, but the case could pressure Broadcom to revise licensing terms that have drawn widespread criticism since the acquisition closed.