# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001124610
**File Stem:** 0001124610-23-000004
**Filing Date:** 2023-2
**Character Count:** 6195
**Document Hash:** 18f2d3bb0fd0e0e3aa5f9db4ed259a2b
**Contains OCR:** False
**Source Format:** 

## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001124610-23-000004.hdr.sgml**: 20230217

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001124610-23-000004

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 12

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20230217

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Other Events

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20230217

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20230217

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** VMWARE, INC.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001124610
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** SERVICES-PREPACKAGED SOFTWARE [7372]
- **IRS NUMBER:** 943292913
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 0203

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-33622
- **FILM NUMBER:** 23642793

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 3401 HILLVIEW AVENUE
- **CITY:** PALO ALTO
- **STATE:** CA
- **ZIP:** 94304
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** (650) 427-5000

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 3401 HILLVIEW AVENUE
- **CITY:** PALO ALTO
- **STATE:** CA
- **ZIP:** 94304

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** VMWARE INC
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20000923

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**UNITED STATES**

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**Washington, D.C. 20549**

**FORM 8-K** 

**CURRENT REPORT**

**PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)**

**OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934**

**Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): February 17, 2023** 

**VMWARE, INC.** 

**(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)**

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| **Delaware** | **001-33622** | **94-3292913** |
| **(State or Other Jurisdiction<br>of Incorporation)** | **(Commission<br>File Number)** | **(IRS Employer<br>Identification Number)** |

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|:---|:---|:---|:---|
| **3401 Hillview Avenue** | **Palo Alto** | **CA** | **94304** |
| **(Address of Principal Executive Offices)** | **(Address of Principal Executive Offices)** | **(Address of Principal Executive Offices)** | **(Zip code)** |

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**Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (650) 427-5000** 

**N/A**

**(Former Name or Former Address, if changed since last report)**

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

☐ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

☐ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

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| **Title of each class** | **Trading Symbol(s)** | **Name of each exchange on which registered** |
| Class A common stock | VMW | New York Stock Exchange |

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

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**Item 8.01&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Other Events**

VMware, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company" or "VMware"), announced previously that it had entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the "Merger Agreement"), dated as of May 26, 2022, by and among Broadcom Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Broadcom"), Verona Holdco, Inc. a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of the Company ("Holdco"), Verona Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Holdco ("Merger Sub 1"), Barcelona Merger Sub 2, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Broadcom ("Merger Sub 2"), and Barcelona Merger Sub 3, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Broadcom ("Merger Sub 3"), pursuant to which, among the other things, (i) Merger Sub 1 will be merged with and into VMware (the "First Merger"), with VMware continuing as the surviving corporation in the First Merger (the "Surviving Company") and becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Holdco; (ii) following the First Merger, the Surviving Company will be converted from a Delaware corporation into a Delaware limited liability company (the "Conversion"); (iii) following the Conversion, Merger Sub 2 will be merged with and into Holdco (the "Second Merger"), with Holdco continuing as the surviving corporation in the Second Merger (the "Holdco Surviving Company") and becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Broadcom; and (iv) following the Second Merger, the Holdco Surviving Company will be merged with and into Merger Sub 3 (the "Third Merger," and together with the First Merger, the Conversion and the Second Merger, the "Transactions"), with Merger Sub 3 continuing as the surviving limited liability company and as a wholly owned subsidiary of Broadcom.

On February 17, 2023, in accordance with Section 9.1(d) of the Merger Agreement, the Company and Broadcom each delivered to the other a mutual notice to extend the Outside Date (as defined in the Merger Agreement) to a date that is twelve months following the date of the Merger Agreement, which is May 26, 2023. The Transactions remain subject to certain required regulatory clearances and the satisfaction or waiver of other customary closing conditions.

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**SIGNATURES**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Date: February 17, 2023

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| | VMware, Inc. |
| By: | /s/ Craig Norris |
|  | Craig Norris |
|  | Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Secretary |

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