Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and O’Melveny & Myers are representing semiconductor developer Broadcom in its $61 billion acquisition of enterprise software company VMware, represented by Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. 

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton is acting as regulatory counsel for Broadcom on the deal, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is representing private equity firm Silver Lake, the second-largest shareholder of VMware.