- The EU decision will be made before February 10; the US investigation is still ongoing
- Google’s $32 billion acquisition of Wiz would be the largest to date
- Wiz promises to “remain a multi-cloud platform”
European antitrust regulators at the bloc’s Commission will issue a formal decision on Google’s acquisition of Wiz as soon as February 10, according to PakGazette information.
Valued at $32 billion, if the deal were to go through it would be the largest acquisition ever made by Alphabet, but it is not just European regulation that is holding the deal back.
A review is also underway in the United States, and the Justice Department is conducting an early-stage antitrust review to determine whether Google’s acquisition of Wiz would limit competition. Naturally, the scale of the deal will present numerous delays, and investigations could take months.
Europe to approve/reject Google’s Wiz acquisition in February 2026
In a March 2025 blog post, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian explained that the two companies intend to team up to handle the increased frequency and severity of cyberattacks.
Kurian also emphasized that Wiz products would remain cloud-agnostic and support rival companies such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud, a clear indication that Google was prepared for a competition investigation.
“We also both believe that Wiz should remain a multi-cloud platform, so that in any cloud we remain a leading platform,” explained Wiz co-founder and CEO Assaf Rappaport.
However, failing to get approval would be costly for the tech giant. Google has reportedly agreed to pay Wiz a 10% breakup fee, around $3.2 billion, if it doesn’t close.
Although each deal is looked at in isolation, Google hasn’t had much luck with antitrust regulators in recent years. US federal judges found the company guilty of having an illegal monopoly on online search and parts of advertising technology, and the company has also been the subject of European investigations related to the Digital Markets Act.
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