"If Broadcom is calling the shots before the accquisition is complete, then vmware is going to be in a lot of legal hot water. If it can be proved, the shareholders of vmware will sue because the parties responsible for the company will have not been running the company -- a third party will be running the company."
You have to sue to get the evidence to prove impropriety. Since when have shareholders sued? They are mostly clueless and just waiting for their payout. The only way that there would be a lawsuit is if some predatory law firm saw a big payout for them and to get that they have to prove that the shareholders were cheated out of #millions, not just that there was some talks going on about deals.