As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 18, 2011
December 21, 2017

Registration StatementNo. 333-175772      

333-            

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORMAMENDMENT No. 1

To
Form S-4

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Broadcom Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

California
 3674 33-0480482

Broadcom Corporation

c/o Broadcom Limited

1 Yishun Avenue 7

Singapore 768923

(State or other jurisdictionOther Jurisdiction of
incorporationIncorporation or organization)Organization)		 (Primary Standard Industrial
Classification Code Number)		 (I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area

code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

AND

5300

Broadcom Cayman Finance Limited

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Cayman Islands367498-1254737

Broadcom Cayman

Finance Limited

c/o Broadcom Limited

1 Yishun Avenue 7

Singapore 768923

(State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation or Organization)		(Primary Standard Industrial
Classification Code Number)		(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

(Address, including zip code, and

telephone number, including area

code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

AND

The Other Registrants Named in the Table of Additional Registrants Below

Mark Brazeal

Rebecca Boyden

Broadcom Limited

1320 Ridder Park Drive

San Jose, California Avenue

Irvine, California95131

(408)92617-3038

(949) 926-5000
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)
Arthur Chong, Esq.
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
5300 California Avenue
Irvine, California92617-3038433-8000
(949) 926-5000

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies of all communicationsWith a copy to:

Thomas

Anthony J. Ivey, Esq.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, MeagherRichmond

Brian D. Paulson

Latham & FlomWatkins LLP

525 University Avenue, Suite 1100
Palo Alto,

140 Scott Drive

Menlo Park, California 94301

94025

Telephone: (650)(650) 470-4500328-4600

Facsimile: (650)463-2600

(650) 470-4570 (facsimile)

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale of the securities to the public: As soon as practicable after this registration statement becomesRegistration Statement is declared effective.

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not check if a smaller reporting company)

to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act.  ☐

If applicable, place an X in the box to designate the appropriate rule provision relied upon in conducting this transaction:

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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

             
      Proposed Maximum
  Proposed Maximum
   
Title of Each Class of
  Amount to be
  Offering Price per
  Aggregate Offering
  Amount of
Securities to be Registered  Registered  Security  Price  Registration Fee
1.500% Senior Notes due 2013  $300,000,000  100%  $300,000,000(1)  $34,830
2.375% Senior Notes due 2015  $400,000,000  100%  $400,000,000(1)  $46,440
Total  $700,000,000  N/A  N/A  $81,270
             

 

 

Title of Each Class of

Securities to be Registered

 Amount to be
Registered		  

Maximum

Offering Price

Per Note(1)

 Maximum
Aggregate
Offering Price		  Amount of
Registration Fee		 

2.375% Senior Notes due 2020

  $2,750,000,000  100% of Principal Amount  $2,750,000,000   $342,375 

3.000% Senior Notes due 2022

  $3,500,000,000  100% of Principal Amount  $3,500,000,000   $435,750 

3.625% Senior Notes due 2024

  $2,500,000,000  100% of Principal Amount  $2,500,000,000   $311,250 

3.875% Senior Notes due 2027

  $4,800,000,000  100% of Principal Amount  $4,800,000,000   $597,600 

2.200% Senior Notes due 2021

  $   750,000,000  100% of Principal Amount  $750,000,000   $93,375 

2.650% Senior Notes due 2023

  $1,000,000,000  100% of Principal Amount  $1,000,000,000   $124,500 

3.125% Senior Notes due 2025

  $1,000,000,000  100% of Principal Amount  $1,000,000,000   $124,500 

3.500% Senior Notes due 2028

  $1,250,000,000  100% of Principal Amount  $1,250,000,000   $155,625 

Guarantees of 2.375% Senior Notes due 2020(2)

  N/A  N/A  N/A   $0(3) 

Guarantees of 3.000% Senior Notes due 2022(2)

  N/A  N/A  N/A   $0(3) 

Guarantees of 3.625% Senior Notes due 2024(2)

  N/A  N/A  N/A   $0(3) 

Guarantees of 3.875% Senior Notes due 2027(2)

  N/A  N/A  N/A   $0(3) 

Guarantees of 2.200% Senior Notes due 2021(2)

  N/A  N/A  N/A   $0(3) 

Guarantees of 2.650% Senior Notes due 2023(2)

  N/A  N/A  N/A   $0(3) 

Guarantees of 3.125% Senior Notes due 2025(2)

  N/A  N/A  N/A   $0(3) 

Guarantees of 3.500% Senior Notes due 2028(2)

  N/A  N/A  N/A   $0(3) 

Total

           $2,184,975 

 

 

 

 
(1)Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee in accordance withunder Rule 457(f) promulgated underof the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.amended (the “Securities Act”).
(2)Consists of guarantees of the 2.375% Senior Notes due 2020, 3.000% Senior Notes due 2022, 3.625% Senior Notes due 2024, 3.875% Senior Notes due 2027, 2.200% Senior Notes due 2021, 2.650% Senior Notes due 2023, 3.125% Senior Notes due 2025 and 3.500% Senior Notes due 2028 by Broadcom Limited and Broadcom Cayman L.P., each listed on the Table of Additional Registrants below.
(3)Pursuant to Rule 457(n) under the Securities Act, no separate filing fee is required for the guarantees.

The Registrantsregistrants hereby amend this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrantregistrants shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act, of 1933 or until thisthe Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

TABLE OF ADDITIONAL REGISTRANTS

Additional Registrants (as Guarantors of 2.375% Senior Notes due 2020, 3.000% Senior Notes due 2022, 3.625% Senior Notes due 2024, 3.875% Senior Notes due 2027, 2.200% Senior Notes due 2021, 2.650% Senior Notes due 2023, 3.125% Senior Notes due 2025 and 3.500% Senior Notes due 2028)

The information

Exact Name of Registrant as

Specified in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and it is not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where the offerits Charter *

State or sale is not permitted.Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation or Organization		I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number		Primary Standard Industrial
Classification Code Number

Broadcom Limited

Singapore98-12548073674

Broadcom Cayman L.P.

Cayman Islands98-12548153674

*Broadcom Cayman L.P. is a majority-owned subsidiary of Broadcom Limited. The address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of Broadcom Limited’s registered offices is 1 Yishun Avenue 7, Singapore 768923, telephone (65) 6755-7888. The address of Broadcom Cayman L.P.’s registered office is P.O. Box 309, Ugland House, Grand Cayman,KY1-1104, Cayman Islands. The name, address, and telephone number of the agent for service for each additional registrant is Mark Brazeal and Rebecca Boyden, Broadcom Limited, 1320 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose, California 95131, telephone (408)433-8000.

The information in this preliminary prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not offer or sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This preliminary prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities, nor a solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, in any jurisdiction where the offering, solicitation or sale is not permitted.

SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED [ • ], 2011DECEMBER 21, 2017

PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS

(BROADCOM CORPORATION LOGO)

$17,550,000,000

LOGO

Broadcom Corporation

Broadcom Cayman Finance Limited

Exchange Offer to Exchange
for

$300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 1.500%2,750,000,000 2.375% Senior Notes due 2013

(CUSIPs 111320AA5 and U11086AA0)
for
2020

$300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 1.500%3,500,000,000 3.000% Senior Notes due 2013
(CUSIP 111320AB3)
that have been registered2022

$2,500,000,000 3.625% Senior Notes due 2024

$4,800,000,000 3.875% Senior Notes due 2027

$750,000,000 2.200% Senior Notes due 2021

$1,000,000,000 2.650% Senior Notes due 2023

$1,000,000,000 3.125% Senior Notes due 2025

$1,250,000,000 3.500% Senior Notes due 2028

Broadcom Corporation, a California corporation (“Broadcom Corporation”), and Broadcom Cayman Finance Limited (formerly known as Avago Technologies Cayman Finance Limited), an exempted company incorporated with limited liability under the Securities Actlaws of 1933, as amended
the Cayman Islands (“Cayman Finance” and,
$400,000,000 together with Broadcom Corporation, the “Issuers”), are offering to issue up to $2.75 billion aggregate principal amount of 2.375% Senior Notessenior notes due 2015
(CUSIPs 111320AC1 and U11086AB8)
for
$400,000,0002020 (the “2020 Notes”), $3.5 billion aggregate principal amount of 2.375% Senior Notes3.000% senior notes due 2015
(CUSIP 111320AD9)
that have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended

The exchange offers will expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on [ • ], 2011, unless we extend or earlier terminate the exchange offers.
We hereby offer, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this prospectus and in the accompanying letter of transmittal (which together constitute the “exchange offers”2022 (the “2022 Notes”), to exchange (i) up to $300,000,000$2.5 billion aggregate outstanding principal amount of our 1.500% Senior3.625% senior notes due 2024 (the “2024 Notes”), $4.8 billion aggregate principal amount of 3.875% senior notes due 2027 (the “2027 Notes”), $750 million aggregate principal amount of 2.200% senior notes due 2021 (the “2021 Notes”), $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of 2.650% senior notes due 2023 (the “2023 Notes”), $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of 3.125% senior notes due 2025 (the “2025 Notes”) and $1.25 billion aggregate principal amount of 3.500% senior notes due 2028 (the “2028 Notes” and, collectively with the 2020 Notes, due 2013 that have beenthe 2022 Notes, the 2024 Notes, the 2027 Notes, the 2021 Notes, the 2023 Notes and the 2025 Notes, the “exchange notes”), in an exchange offer registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), which we refer to asin exchange for any and all of the “new 2013 notes,” for a like$2.75 billion aggregate principal amount of our outstanding 1.500% Senior2020 Notes, due 2013, which we refer to as the “old 2013 notes”; and (ii) up to $400,000,000 aggregate outstanding principal amount of our 2.375% Senior Notes due 2015 that have been registered under the Securities Act, which we refer to as the “new 2015 notes,” for a like$3.5 billion aggregate principal amount of our outstanding 2.375% Senior2022 Notes, due 2015, which we refer to as the “old 2015 notes.” The $300,000,000$2.5 billion aggregate principal amount of old 2013 notes2024 Notes, $4.8 billion aggregate principal amount of 2027 Notes, $750 million aggregate principal amount of the 2021 Notes, $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of the 2023 Notes, $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of the 2025 Notes and $1.25 billion aggregate principal amount of the 2028 Notes, respectively (collectively, the “outstanding notes”), that we issued on January 19, 2017 (in the case of the 2020 Notes, the 2022 Notes, the 2024 Notes and the $400,000,0002027 Notes) and on October 17, 2017 (in the case of old 2015the 2021 Notes, the 2023 Notes, the 2025 Notes and the 2028 Notes).

Each series of exchange notes will initially be, and each series of outstanding notes is, fully and unconditionally guaranteed, jointly and severally, on an unsecured, unsubordinated basis by Broadcom Limited, a public limited company incorporated under the laws of the Republic of Singapore and the ultimate indirect parent of the Issuers (“Broadcom Limited” or “Broadcom Parent”) and Broadcom Cayman L.P., an exempted limited partnership registered under the laws of the Cayman Islands and a majority-owned subsidiary of Broadcom Parent (“Broadcom Cayman L.P.” and, together with Broadcom Parent, the “Guarantors”). The guarantee of Broadcom Cayman L.P. may be released under certain circumstances as described in this prospectus under “Description of Notes—Guarantees.”

We are offering to exchange the outstanding notes for the exchange notes to satisfy our obligations in the registration rights agreements that we entered into when the outstanding notes were issuedsold pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S under the indenture, dated as of November 1, 2010, as supplemented by a supplemental indenture, dated as of November 1, 2010 (as so supplemented, the “indenture”). Collectively, we refer to the old 2013Securities Act.

The Exchange Offer

We will exchange all outstanding notes that are validly tendered and the old 2015 notes as the “old notes” and we refer to the new 2013 notes along with the new 2015 notes as the “new notes.”
Termsnot validly withdrawn for an equal principal amount of the respective series of exchange offers:notes that are freely tradable, except in limited circumstances as described below.

• On the terms and subject to the conditions of the exchange offers, we will exchange each series of new notes for the respective series of all theYou may withdraw tenders of your outstanding old notes that are validly tendered and not validly withdrawn prior to the expiration of the exchange offers.
• You may withdraw tenders of old notes at any time prior to the expiration of the exchange offers.
• The terms of the new notes are substantially identical to those of the old notes, except that the transfer restrictions, registration rights and special interest provisions relating to the old notes will not apply to the new notes.
• The exchange of old notes for new notes will not be a taxable transaction for United States federal income tax purposes, but you should see the discussion under the heading “Material United States Federal Income Tax Considerations” for more information.
• We will not receive any proceeds from the exchange offers.
• We issued the old notes in a transaction not requiring registration under the Securities Act, and as a result, the transfer of the old notes is restricted under the securities laws. We are making the exchange offers to satisfy your registration rights as a holder of old notes.
There is no established trading market for the new notes or the old notes.
Each broker-dealer that receives new notes for its own account pursuant to the exchange offers must acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of such new notes. The letter of transmittal states that by so acknowledging and by delivering a prospectus, a broker-dealer will not be deemed to admit that it is an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act. This prospectus, as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, may be used by a broker-dealer in connection with resales of new notes received in exchange for old notes where such old notes were acquired by such broker-dealer as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities. Under the registration rights agreement we have agreed that, for a period up to the earlier of (i) 120 days from the date the exchange offer registration statement is declared effective and (ii) the date on which a broker-dealer is no longer required to deliver a prospectus in connection with market-making or other trading activities, we will make this prospectus available to any broker-dealer for use in connection with any such resale. See “Plan of Distribution.”
See “Risk Factors” beginning on page 10 for a discussion of risks you should consider prior to tendering your outstanding old notes for exchange.
Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or passed upon the adequacy or accuracy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.
The date of this prospectus is [ • ], 2011

You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus. We have not authorized any other person to provide you with different information. If anyone provides you with different or inconsistent information, you should not rely on it. We are not making an offer to exchange the new notes in any jurisdiction where it is not permitted. You should assume that the information appearing in this prospectus is accurate only as of the date of this prospectus. Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects may have changed since that date.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Market and Industry Data
i
Website
ii
Additional Information
ii
Forward-Looking Statements
ii
Summary
1
Selected Consolidated Financial Data
9
Risk Factors
10
Use of Proceeds
23
Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges
23
The Exchange Offers; Registration Rights Agreement
24
Description of the New Notes
33
Material United States Federal Income Tax Considerations
48
Plan of Distribution
49
Legal Matters
50
Experts
50
Where You Can Find More Information
50
This prospectus contains summaries of the material terms of certain business and financial documents. Copies of these documents, except for certain exhibits and schedules, will be made available to you without charge upon written or oral request to us. Requests for documents or other additional information should be directed to Broadcom Corporation, 5300 California Avenue, Irvine, California92617-3038, Attention: General Counsel, Telephone:(949) 926-5000.To obtain timely delivery of documents or information, we must receive your request no later than five (5) business days before the expiration date of the exchange offers.offer.

MARKET AND INDUSTRY DATA
This prospectus andThe exchange offer expires at 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on                 , 2018, unless extended. We do not currently intend to extend the documents we incorporate by reference contain information related to industry conditions and forecasts that we obtainedexpiration date.

The exchange of the outstanding notes for exchange notes in the exchange offer will not be a taxable event for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

We will not receive any proceeds from internal industry research, publicly available information (including industry publications), and surveys and market research provided by consultants. the exchange offer.

The publicly available information andExchange Notes

The terms of the reports, forecasts and other research provided by consultants generally state that the information contained therein has been obtained from sources believedexchange notes to be reliable, but there can be no assurance as to the accuracy and completeness of such information. We have not independently verified any of the data from third-party sources, nor have we ascertained the underlying economic assumptions relied upon therein. Similarly, our internal research and forecasts are based upon our management’s understanding of industry conditions, and such information has not been verified by any independent sources.


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WEBSITE
The information contained on or that can be accessed through the websites of Broadcom or its subsidiaries is not incorporated in, and is not a part of, this prospectus, and you should not rely on any such information in connection with your investment decision to exchange your outstanding old notes for new notes.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The company was incorporated under the laws of the State of California in 1991. Our common stock is listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market and trades under the ticker symbol “BRCM.” Our principal executive offices are located at 5300 California Avenue, Irvine, California92617-3038 and our telephone number is(949) 926-5000. Our internet address iswww.broadcom.com. The contents of our website are not a part of this prospectus.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
All statements included or incorporated by reference in this prospectus and the documents it incorporates, other than statements or characterizations of historical fact, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations, estimates and projections about our business and industry, management’s beliefs, and certain assumptions made by us, all of which are subject to change. Forward-looking statements can often be identified by words such as “anticipates,” “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “predicts,” “believes,” “seeks,” “estimates,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “would,” “could,” “potential,” “continue,” “ongoing,” similar expressions, and variations or negatives of these words. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future results and are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause our actual results to differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any forward-looking statement.
Sections of this prospectus, including under the heading “Risk Factors,” our Annual Report onForm 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010, our Quarterly Reports onForm 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2011 and June 30, 2011, and other Securities and Exchange Commission filings discuss certain factors that may cause such a difference for Broadcom as well as other important risk factors that could contribute to such differences or otherwise affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. The forward-looking statements in this prospectus speak only as of this date and we undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statement, to reflect future events or circumstances.


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SUMMARY
This summary contains a general summary of the information contained in this prospectus. This summary may not contain all of the information that is important to you, and it is qualified in its entirety by the more detailed information and financial statements, including the notes to those financial statements, that are part of the reports we file with the SEC and that are incorporated by reference in this prospectus. You should carefully consider the information contained in and incorporated by reference in this entire prospectus, including the information set forthissued in the section entitled “Risk Factors” beginning on page 10 of this prospectus. The new notes will be issued by Broadcom Corporation, a California corporation (“Broadcom” or the “Issuer”). Except where otherwise notedexchange offer are identical in this prospectus, the words “company,” “we,” “our,” “ours” and “us” referall material respects to Broadcom Corporation and all of its subsidiaries. With respect to the discussion of the terms of the respective series of outstanding notes, except that the exchange notes will be freely tradable, except in limited circumstances as described below.

Resales of the Exchange Notes

The exchange notes may be resold in theover-the-counter market, in negotiated transactions or through a combination of such methods. We do not plan to list the exchange notes on the cover page and in the sections entitled “Summary” and “Description of the New Notes,” the “company,” “we,” “our” and “us” refer only to Broadcom Corporation. The 1.500% Senior Notes due 2013, together with the 2.375% Senior Notes due 2015 are sometimes referred to herein as the “notes,” which term, except with respect to discussions of income tax consequences and unless the context otherwise requires, includes the newany securities exchange or market.

All untendered outstanding notes and the old notes of each series.

Broadcom Corporation
Broadcom Corporation is a global leader and innovator in semiconductors solutions for wired and wireless communications. Our products seamlessly deliver voice, video, data and multimedia connectivity in the home, office and mobile environment. We provide the industry’s broadest portfolio ofstate-of-the-artsystem-on-a-chip and embedded software solutions. Our diverse product portfolio includes:
• Broadband Communications (Solutions for the Home) —Highly integrated solutions for the connected home, including set-top-boxes and media servers, residential gateways, home networking, femtocells, high definition TV platforms, consumer electronic products and digital video recorders (DVRs).
• Mobile & Wireless (Solutions for the Hand) —Low-power, high-performance and highly integrated solutions powering the mobile ecosystem, including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, cellular modems, personal navigation and global positioning, near field communications, multimedia and application processing, and mobile power management solutions.
• Infrastructure & Networking (Solutions for Infrastructure)— Highly integrated solutions for carriers, service providers, enterprises,small-to-medium businesses and data centers for network infrastructure needs, including switches and physical layer (PHY) devices for local, metropolitan, wide area and storage networking; switch fabric solutions; and high-speed controllers.
Broadcom was incorporated in California in August 1991. Our principal executive offices are located at 5300 California Avenue, Irvine, California92617-3038, and our telephone number at that location is(949) 926-5000. Our Internet address iswww.broadcom.com. Information contained in our website is not incorporated by reference into and does not form any part of this prospectus.


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The Exchange Offers
Old Notes$300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 1.500% old notes due 2013.
$400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2.375% old notes due 2015.
New NotesUp to $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 1.500% new notes due 2013.
Up to $400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2.375% new notes due 2015.
Each series of new notes has been registered under the Securities Act.
The form and the terms of the new notes are substantially identical to those of the old notes, except that the transfer restrictions, registration rights and special interest provisions relating to the old notes do not apply to the new notes.
Exchange Offers for NotesWe are offering to exchange each series of new notes of the applicable series for a like principal amount of old notes to satisfy our obligations under the registration rights agreement that we entered into when the old notes were issued in a transaction consummated in reliance upon the exemptions from registration provided by Rule 144A and Regulation S under the Securities Act.
Expiration Date; TendersThe exchange offers will expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on [ • ], 2011, unless we extend or earlier terminate the exchange offers. By tendering your old notes, you represent to us that:
• you are neither our “affiliate,” as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act, nor a broker-dealer tendering notes acquired directly from us for your own account;
• any new notes you receive in the exchange offers are being acquired by you in the ordinary course of your business;
• at the time of the commencement of the exchange offers, neither you nor, to your knowledge, anyone receiving new notes from you, has any arrangement or understanding with any person to participate in the distribution, as defined in the Securities Act, of the new notes in violation of the Securities Act;
• if you are a broker-dealer, you will receive the new notes for your own account in exchange for old notes that were acquired by you as a result of your market-making or other trading activities and that you will deliver a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of the new notes you receive; for further information regarding resales of the new notes by participating broker-dealers, see the discussion under the caption “Plan of Distribution”; and
• if you are not a broker-dealer, you are not engaged in, and do not intend to engage in, the distribution, as defined in the Securities Act, of the new notes.


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Withdrawal; Non-AcceptanceYou may withdraw any old notes tendered in the exchange offers at any time prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on [ • ], 2011, unless we extend or earlier terminate the exchange offers. If we decide for any reason not to accept any old notes tendered for exchange, the old notes will be returned to the registered holder at our expense promptly after the expiration or termination of the exchange offers. In the case of old notes tendered by book-entry transfer into the exchange agent’s account at The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”), any withdrawn or unaccepted old notes will be credited to the tendering holder’s account at DTC. For further information regarding the withdrawal of tendered old notes, see “The Exchange Offers — Terms of the Exchange Offers; Period for Tendering Old Notes” and “The Exchange Offers — Withdrawal Rights.”
Conditions to the Exchange OffersWe are not required to accept for exchange or to issue new notes in exchange for any old notes, and we may terminate or amend the exchange offers, if any of the following events occur prior to the expiration of the exchange offers:
• the exchange offers violate any applicable law or applicable interpretation of the staff of the SEC;
• an action or proceeding shall have been instituted or threatened in any court or by any governmental agency that might materially impair our ability to proceed with the exchange offers;
• we do not receive all the governmental approvals that we believe are necessary to consummate the exchange offers; or
• there has been proposed, adopted, or enacted any law, statute, rule or regulation that, in our reasonable judgment, would materially impair our ability to consummate the exchange offers.
We may waive any of the above conditions in our reasonable discretion. See the discussion below under the caption “The Exchange Offers — Conditions to the Exchange Offers” for more information regarding the conditions to the exchange offer.
Procedures for Tendering Old NotesUnless you comply with the procedure described below under the caption “The Exchange Offers — Guaranteed Delivery Procedures,” you must do one of the following on or prior to the expiration of the exchange offers to participate in the exchange offers:
• tender your old notes by sending (i) the certificates for your old notes (in proper form for transfer), (ii) a properly completed and duly executed letter of transmittal and (iii) all other documents required by the letter of transmittal to Wilmington Trust, National Association, as exchange agent, at one of the addresses listed below under the caption “The Exchange Offers — Exchange Agent”; or
• tender your old notes by using the book-entry transfer procedures described below and transmitting a properly completed and duly executed letter of transmittal, or an agent’s message instead of the letter of transmittal, to the exchange agent. For a book-entry transfer to constitute a valid tender of your old notes in the


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exchange offers, Wilmington Trust, National Association, as exchange agent, must receive a confirmation of book-entry transfer of your old notes into the exchange agent’s account at DTC prior to the expiration or termination of the exchange offers. For more information regarding the use of book-entry transfer procedures, including a description of the required agent’s message, see the discussion below under the caption “The Exchange Offers — Book-Entry Transfers.” As used in this prospectus, the term “agent’s message” means a message, transmitted by DTC to and received by the exchange agent and forming a part of a book-entry confirmation, which states that DTC has received an express acknowledgment from the tendering participant stating that such participant has received and agrees to be bound by the letter of transmittal and that we may enforce such letter of transmittal against such participant.
Guaranteed Delivery ProceduresIf you are a registered holder of old notes and wish to tender your old notes in the exchange offers, but:
• the old notes are not immediately available;
• time will not permit your old notes or other required documents to reach the exchange agent before the expiration or termination of the exchange offers; or
• the procedure for book-entry transfer cannot be completed prior to the expiration or termination of the exchange offers;
then you may tender old notes by following the procedures described below under the caption “The Exchange Offers — Guaranteed Delivery Procedures.”
Special Procedures for Beneficial OwnersIf you are a beneficial owner whose old notes are registered in the name of a broker, dealer, commercial bank, trust company or other nominee and you wish to tender your old notes in the exchange offers, you should promptly contact the person in whose name the old notes are registered and instruct that person to tender them on your behalf. If you wish to tender in the exchange offers on your own behalf, prior to completing and executing the letter of transmittal and delivering your old notes, you must either make appropriate arrangements to register ownership of the old notes in your name, or obtain a properly completed bond power from the person in whose name the old notes are registered.
Material United States Federal Income Tax ConsiderationsThe exchange of old notes for new notes in the exchange offers will not be a taxable transaction for United States federal income tax purposes. See the discussion below under the caption “Material United States Federal Income Tax Considerations” for more information regarding the United States federal income tax consequences to you of the exchange offers.
Use of ProceedsWe will not receive any proceeds from either of the exchange offers.
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number of the exchange agent below under the caption, “The Exchange Offers — Exchange Agent.”
ResalesBased on interpretations by the staff of the SEC, as set forth in no-action letters issued to third parties, we believe that the new notes issued in the exchange offers may be offered for resale, resold or otherwise transferred by you without compliance with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act as long as:
• you are acquiring the new notes in the ordinary course of your business;
• you are not participating, do not intend to participate and have no arrangement or understanding with any person to participate, in a distribution of the new notes; and
• you are neither an affiliate of ours nor a broker-dealer tendering notes acquired directly from us for your own account.
If you are an affiliate of ours, are engaged in or intend to engage in or have any arrangement or understanding with any person to participate in, the distribution of new notes:
• you cannot rely on the applicable interpretations of the staff of the SEC;
• you will not be entitled to tender your old notes in the exchange offers; and
• you must comply with the registration requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale transaction.
Each broker or dealer that receives new notes for its own account in exchange for old notes that were acquired as a result of market-making or other trading activities must acknowledge that it will comply with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any offer, resale or other transfer of the new notes issued in the exchange offers, including information with respect to any selling holder required by the Securities Act in connection with any resale of the new notes.
Furthermore, any broker-dealer that acquired any of its old notes directly from us:
• may not rely on the applicable interpretation of the staff of the SEC’s position contained in Exxon Capital Holdings Corp., SEC no-action letter (publicly available May 13, 1988), Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, SEC no-action letter (publicly available June 5, 1991) and Shearman & Sterling, SEC no-action letter (publicly available July 2, 1993); and
• must also be named as a selling noteholder in connection with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act relating to any resale transaction.
Broker-DealersEach broker-dealer that receives new notes for its own account pursuant to the exchange offers must acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of such new notes. The letter of transmittal


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states that by so acknowledging and delivering a prospectus, a broker-dealer will not be deemed to admit that it is an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act. This prospectus, as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, may be used by a broker-dealer in connection with resales of new notes received in exchange for old notes which were received by the broker-dealer as a result of market-making or other trading activities. Under the registration rights agreement we have agreed that, for a period up to the earlier of (i) 120 days from the date the exchange offer registration statement is declared effective and (ii) the date on which a broker-dealer is no longer required to deliver a prospectus in connection with market-trading or other trading activities, we will make this prospectus available to any broker-dealer for use in connection with any such resale. See “Plan of Distribution” beginning on page 49 for more information.
Registration Rights Agreement for the Old NotesWhen we issued the old notes on November 1, 2010, we entered into a registration rights agreement with the initial purchasers of the old notes. Under the terms of the registration rights agreement, we agreed to:
• use commercially reasonable efforts to file the exchange offer registration statement with the SEC on or prior to November 1, 2011;
• use commercially reasonable efforts to have the exchange offer registration statement declared effective by the SEC on or prior to November 1, 2011;
• use commercially reasonable efforts to commence and consummate the exchange offers upon the effectiveness of the exchange offer registration statement on or prior to November 1, 2011;
• use commercially reasonable efforts to file a shelf registration statement for the resale of the old notes if we are not required to file an exchange offer registration statement or permitted to consummate the exchange offers because the exchange offers are not permitted by applicable law or SEC policy and in certain other circumstances; and
• if we fail to meet our registration obligations under the registration rights agreement, we will pay special interest at a rate of 0.25% per annum for the first90-day period immediately following the occurrence of such default, to be increased by an additional 0.25% per annum with respect to each subsequent90-day period until all such defaults have been cured, up to a maximum special interest rate of 0.5% per annum.
Consequences of Not Exchanging Old Notes
If you do not exchange your old notes in the exchange offers, you will continue to be subject to the restrictions on transfer describedset forth in the legend onoutstanding notes and in the certificate for your old notes.related indentures. In general, youthe outstanding notes may offer or sell your old notes only:
• if they are registered under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws;
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• if they arenot be offered or sold, except in transactions that are registered under the Securities Act or pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws.
We do not intend to register the old notes under the Securities Act, and holders of old notes that do not exchange old notes for new notes in the exchange offers will no longer have registration rights with respect to the old notes except in the limited circumstances provided in the registration rights agreement. Under some circumstances, as described in the registration rights agreement, holders of the old notes, including holders who are not permitted to participate in the exchange offers or who may not freely sell new notes received in the exchange offers, may require us to file, and to cause to become effective, a shelf registration statement covering resales of the old notes by such holders. For more information regarding the consequences of not tendering your old notes and our obligations to file a shelf registration statement, see “The Exchange Offers — Consequences of Exchanging or Failing to Exchange Old Notes.”
Summary Description of the New Notes
The terms of the new notes and those of the old notes are substantially identical, except that the transfer restrictions, registration rights and special interest provisions relating to the old notes do not apply to the new notes. For a more complete understanding of the new notes, see “Description of the New Notes” in this prospectus.
IssuerBroadcom Corporation
Notes Offered$300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 1.500% new notes due 2013.
$400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2.375% new notes due 2015.
Maturity Dates2013 notes: November 1, 2013.
2015 notes: November 1, 2015.
Interest Rates2013 notes: 1.500% per annum.
2015 notes: 2.375% per annum.
Interest Payment DatesMay 1 and November 1 of each year, payable semiannually in arrears beginning on May 1, 2011. The new notes will bear interest from the most recent date to which interest has been paid on the old notes. If your old notes are tendered and accepted for exchange, you will receive interest on the new notes and not on the old notes. Any old notes not tendered or not accepted for exchange will remain outstanding and will continue to accrue interest according to their terms.
Form and TermsThe form and terms of the new notes will be the same as the form and terms of the old notes except that:
• the new notes will bear different CUSIP numbers from the old notes;
• the new notes have been registered under the Securities Act and, therefore, will not bear legends restricting their transfer; and
• you will not be entitled to any exchange or registration rights with respect to the new notes, and the new notes will not provide for special interest in connection with registration defaults.
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notes and will be each treated under the indenture, as a single class with the respective class of old notes.
RankingThe notes will:
• rank senior in right of payment to all of our existing and future obligations that are by their terms expressly subordinated or junior in right of payment to the notes;
• rank equally in right of payment to all our existing and future senior unsecured obligations (including obligations under our senior unsecured credit facility); and
• be effectively subordinated in right of payment to all of our and our subsidiaries’ existing and future indebtedness and other obligations (including secured and unsecured obligations) and subordinated in right of payment to our existing and future secured indebtedness and other obligations to the extent of the value of the assets securing such indebtedness and other obligations.
Optional RedemptionWe may redeem the notes, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time prior to November 1, 2013 with respect to the 2013 notes and at any time and from time to time prior to November 1, 2015 with respect to the 2015 notes, in each case at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the notes redeemed plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to but not including the applicable redemption date and a “make-whole” premium. See “Description of the New Notes — Optional Redemption.”
Change of ControlIn the event of a change of control triggering event, the holders may require us to purchase for cash all or a portion of their notes at a purchase price equal to 101% of the principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any. See “Description of the New Notes — Certain Covenants — Repurchase of Notes upon a Change of Control.”
Certain CovenantsThe indenture governing the notes will, among other things, limit our ability to:
• create liens on certain assets to secure debt;
• enter into certain sale and lease-back transactions; and
• consolidate, merge, sell or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of our assets.
See “Description of the New Notes — Certain Covenants.”
No Prior Market; No ListingThe notes will be new securities for which there currently is no market, and the notes will not be listed on any securities exchange or quoted on any quotation system. We cannot assure you that a liquid market for the notes will develop or be maintained.
Risk FactorsYou should refer to the section entitled “Risk Factors,” beginning on page 10, for a discussion of certain risks involved in investing in the notes and tendering your old notes in the exchange offers.
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SELECTED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL DATA
The financial information below (i) as of and for the six months ended June 30, 2010 and 2011, has been derived from Broadcom Corporation’s unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements as of and for such periods, and (ii) as of and for the year ended December 31, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, and 2006, has been derived from Broadcom Corporation’s audited consolidated financial statements for such periods and as of such dates. Since the information presented below is only a summary and does not provide all of the information contained in Broadcom Corporation’s financial statements, you should read this information in conjunction with “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operation” incorporated by reference from Broadcom Corporation’s Annual Report onForm 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010 and Quarterly Report onForm 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2011.
                             
  Six Months Ended June 30,  Year Ended December 31, 
  2011  2010  2010  2009  2008  2007  2006 
  (Unaudited)  (In millions, except per share data) 
 
Consolidated Statements of Income Data
                            
Net revenue:                            
Product revenue $3,494  $2,951  $6,589  $4,273  $4,485  $3,739  $3,668 
Income from Qualcomm Agreement  103   103   207   171   —   —   — 
Licensing revenue  15   13   22   46   173   37   — 
                             
Total net revenue  3,612   3,067   6,818   4,490   4,658   3,776   3,668 
Costs and expenses:                            
Cost of product revenue  1,772   1,457   3,284   2,211   2,213   1,832   1,796 
Research and development  1,002   842   1,762   1,535   1,498   1,349   1,117 
Selling, general and administrative  361   277   590   478   543   492   504 
Amortization of purchased intangible assets  15   8   28   15   3   1   2 
Impairment of goodwill and other long-lived assets  83   —   19   19   172   2   — 
Settlement costs, net  (50)  4   53   118   16   —   — 
Restructuring costs (reversals)  —   —   —   8   (1)  —   — 
In-process research and development  —   —   —   —   42   15   5 
Charitable contribution  25   —   —   50   —   —   — 
                             
Total operating costs and expenses  3,208   2,588   5,736   4,434   4,486   3,691   3,424 
Income from operations  404   479   1,082   56   172   85   244 
Interest income, net  —   5   9   14   52   131   119 
Other income (expense), net  —   5   6   2   (2)  3   4 
                             
Income before income taxes  404   489   1,097   72   222   219   367 
Provision (benefit) for income taxes  1   1   15   7   7   6   (12)
                             
Net income $403  $488  $1,082  $65  $215  $213  $379 
                             
Net income per share (basic) $0.75  $0.98  $2.13  $0.13  $0.42  $0.39  $0.69 
                             
Net income per share (diluted) $0.71  $0.92  $1.99  $0.13  $0.41  $0.37  $0.64
 
                             
  June 30,  December 31, 
  2011  2010  2010  2009  2008  2007  2006 
  (Unaudited)  (In millions) 
 
Consolidated Balance Sheet Data
                            
Cash and cash equivalents and short- and long-term marketable securities $3,800  $2,490  $4,058  $2,368  $1,898  $2,404  $2,802 
Working capital  2,923   2,232   2,912   1,766   2,034   2,324   2,673 
Goodwill and purchased intangible assets, net  2,308   1,566   2,043   1,481   1,341   1,423   1,214 
Total assets  7,835   5,636   7,944   5,127   4,393   4,838   4,877 
Total shareholders’ equity  5,877   4,452   5,826   3,892   3,607   4,036   4,192 


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RISK FACTORS
You should carefully consider the risks and all the other information contained in, and incorporated by reference into, this prospectus before tendering your old notes in the exchange offers. See “Where You Can Find More Information.”
Risks Related to our Business
We face intense competition.
The semiconductor industry in particular and the wired and wireless communications markets are intensely competitive. We expect competition to continue to increase as new markets develop, as industry standards become well known and as other competitors enter our business. We expect to encounter further consolidation in the markets in which we compete.
Many of our competitors have longer operating histories and presences in key markets, greater name recognition, larger customer bases, and significantly greater financial, sales and marketing, manufacturing, distribution, technical and other resources than we do, and in some cases operate their own fabrication facilities. These competitors may be able to adapt more quickly to new or emerging technologies and changes in customer requirements. They may also be able to devote greater resources to the promotion and sale of their products. We also face competition from newly established competitors, suppliers of products, and customers who choose to develop their own semiconductor solutions.
Existing or new competitors may develop technologies that more effectively address our markets with products that offer enhanced features and functionality, lower power requirements, greater levels of integration or lower cost. Increased competition also has resulted in and is likely to continue to result in increased expenditures on research and development, declining average selling prices, reduced gross margins and loss of market share in certain markets. These factors in turn create increased pressure to consolidate. We cannot assure you that we will be able to continue to compete successfully against current or new competitors. If we do not compete successfully, we may lose market share in our existing markets and our revenues may fail to increase or may decline.
We depend on a few significant customers for a substantial portion of our revenue.
We derive a substantial portion of our revenue from sales to a relatively small number of customers. Sales to our five largest customers represented 40.4% and 35.2% of our total net revenue in the six months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010, respectively. We expect that our largest customers will continue to account for a substantial portion of our total net revenue for the foreseeable future. The loss of any significant customer could materially and adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.
A significant portion of our revenue in any period may also depend on a single product design win with a large customer. As a result, the loss of any such key design win or any significant delay in the ramp of volume production of the customer’s products into which our product is designed could materially and adversely affect


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our financial condition and results of operations. We may not be able to maintain sales to certain of our key customers or continue to secure key design wins for a variety of reasons, including:
• agreements with our customers typically do not require them to purchase a minimum quantity of our products; and
• our customers can stop incorporating our products into their own products with limited notice to us and suffer little or no penalty.
In addition, the majority of our licensing revenues and related income to date has been derived from agreements with two customers, Verizon Wireless and Qualcomm. Our patent license agreements with these two customers are expected to result in licensing revenue and related income of approximately $1.02 billion over a six year period. From January 2008 through June 2011, we recorded $648 million in licensing revenue and related income derived from Verizon Wireless and Qualcomm. The licensing revenue from our agreement with Verizon Wireless has ended and the income from the Qualcomm Agreement is non-recurring and will terminate in 2013. There can be no assurances that we will be able to enter into additional such arrangements in the future, or that we will be able to successfully collect the remaining payments due to us under the Qualcomm Agreement in the event of a default by Qualcomm.
The loss of a key customer or design win, a reduction in sales to any key customer, decrease in licensing revenue, significant delay in our customers’ product development plans, or our inability to attract new significant customers or secure new key design wins could seriously impact our revenue and materially and adversely affect our results of operations.
Our quarterly operating results may fluctuate significantly.
Our quarterly net revenue and operating results have fluctuated significantly in the past and are likely to continue to vary from quarter to quarter. Variability in the nature of our operating results may be attributed to the factors identified throughout this “Risk Factors” section, many of which may be outside our control, including:
• changes in economic conditions in the markets we address, including the continuing volatility in the technology sector and semiconductor industry;
• seasonality in sales of consumer and enterprise products in which our products are incorporated;
• our dependence on a few significant customersand/or design wins for a substantial portion of our revenue;
• timing, rescheduling or cancellation of significant customer orders and our ability, as well as the ability of our customers, to manage inventory;
• changes in customer product needs and market acceptance of our products;
• competitive pressures and other factors such as the qualification, availability and pricing of competing products and technologies and the resulting effects on sales and pricing of our products;
• the impact of a significant natural disaster, such as an earthquake, severe weather, tsunamis or other flooding, or a nuclear crisis, as well as interruptions or shortages in the supply of utilities such as water and electricity, on a key location such as our corporate headquarters or our Northern California facilities, both of which are located near major earthquake fault lines; and
• the impact of tax examinations.
We face risks associated with our acquisition strategy.
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technological capabilities. We may not be able to identify or consummate future acquisitions or realize the desired benefit from these acquisitions.
We face a number of challenges associated with our acquisition strategy that could disrupt our ongoing business and distract our management team, including:
• delays in the timing and successful integration of an acquired company’s technologies;
• the loss of key personnel;
• if our actual results, or the plans and estimates used in future impairment analyses, are less favorable than the original estimates used to assess the recoverability of these assets, we could incur additional impairment charges;
• lower gross margins, revenues and operating income than originally anticipated at the time of acquisition and other financial challenges; and
• becoming subject to intellectual property or other litigation.
Acquisitions can result in increased debt or contingent liabilities, adverse tax consequences, warranty or product liability exposure related to acquired assets, additional stock-based compensation expense, write up of acquired inventory to fair value, and the recording and later amortization of amounts related to certain purchased intangible assets. In addition, we may record goodwill and other purchased intangible assets in connection with an acquisition and incur impairment charges in the future.
We may fail to adjust our operations in response to changes in demand.
Through internal growth and acquisitions, we significantly modified the scope of our operations and workforce in recent years. Our operations are characterized by a high percentage of costs that are fixed or difficult to reduce in the short term, such as research and development expenses and our highly skilled workforce. During some periods, our growth has placed a significant strain on our management personnel, systems and resources. To respond to periods of increased demand, we will be required to expand, train, manage and motivate our workforce. Alternatively, in response to the economic downturn in the markets in the semiconductor industry and communications market, we may be required to implement restructuring actions and a number of other cost saving measures. All of these endeavors require substantial management effort. If we are unable to effectively manage our expanding operations, we may be unable to adjust our business quickly enough to meet competitive challenges or exploit potential market opportunities, or conversely, we may scale our business too quickly and the rate of increase in our expenses may exceed the rate of increase in our revenue, either of which would materially and adversely affect our current or future business.
Our operating results may be adversely impacted by worldwide economic uncertainties and specific conditions in the markets we address.
We operate primarily in the semiconductor industry, which is cyclical and subject to rapid change and evolving industry standards. From time to time, the semiconductor industry has experienced significant downturns characterized by decreases in product demand, excess customer inventories and accelerated erosion of prices. The semiconductor industry also periodically experiences increased demand and production capacity constraints, which may affect our ability to ship products. An increasing number of our products are being incorporated into consumer electronic products, which are subject to significant seasonality and fluctuations in demand. Economic volatility can cause extreme difficulties for our customers and vendors to accurately forecast and plan future business activities. This unpredictability could cause our customers to reduce spending on our products and services, which would delay and lengthen sales cycles. Furthermore, during challenging economic times our customers and vendors may face issues gaining timely access to sufficient credit, which could impact their ability to make timely payments to us. As a result, we may experience growth patterns that are different than the end demand for products, particularly during periods of high volatility.
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challenging macroeconomic conditions and supply chain cross-dependencies could have a compound impact on our business. The impact of market volatility is not limited to revenue but may also affect our product gross margins and other financial metrics. Any downturn in the semiconductor industry may be severe and prolonged, and any failure of the industry or wired and wireless communications markets to fully recover from downturns could seriously impact our revenue and harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Our stock price is highly volatile.
The market price of our Class A common stock has fluctuated substantially in the past and is likely to continue to be highly volatile and subject to wide fluctuations. From January 1, 2009 through June 30, 2011 our Class A common stock has traded at prices as low as $15.31 and as high as $47.39 per share. Fluctuations have occurred and may continue to occur in response to various factors, many of which we cannot control.
In addition, the market prices of securities of Internet-related, semiconductor and other technology companies have been and remain volatile. This volatility has significantly affected the market prices of securities of many technology companies for reasons frequently unrelated to the operating performance of the specific companies. If our operating results do not meet the expectations of securities analysts or investors, who may derive their expectations by extrapolating data from recent historical operating results, the market price of our Class A common stock will likely decline. Accordingly, you may not be able to resell your shares of common stock at or above the price you paid. In the past, we, and other companies that have experienced volatility in the market price of their securities, have been the subject of securities class action litigation.
Due to the nature of our compensation programs, most of our executive officers sell shares of our common stock each quarter or otherwise periodically, often pursuant to trading plans established underRule 10b5-1 promulgated under the Exchange Act. As a result, sales of shares by our executive officers may not be indicative of their respective opinions of Broadcom’s performance at the time of sale or of our potential future performance. Nonetheless, the market price of our stock may be affected by sales of shares by our executive officers.
We may be required to defend against alleged infringement of intellectual property rights of othersand/or may be unable to adequately protect or enforce our own intellectual property rights.
Companies in the semiconductor industry and the wired and wireless communications markets aggressively protect and pursue their intellectual property rights. From time to time, we receive notices that claim we have infringed upon, misappropriated or misused other parties’ proprietary rights. Additionally, we receive notices that challenge the validity of our patents. Intellectual property litigation can be expensive, time consuming and distracting to management. An adverse determination in any of these types of disputes could prevent us from manufacturing or selling some of our products or could prevent us from enforcing our intellectual property rights.
We may also be required to indemnify some customers and strategic partners under our agreements if a third party alleges or if a court finds that our products or activities have infringed upon, misappropriated or misused another party’s proprietary rights. We have received requests from certain customers and strategic partners to include increasingly broad indemnification provisions in our agreements with them. These indemnification provisions may, in some circumstances, extend our liability beyond the products we provide to include liability for combinations of components or system level designs and for consequential damagesand/or lost profits. Even if claims or litigation against us are not valid or successfully asserted, these claims could result in significant costs and diversion of the attention of management and other key employees to defend.
Our products may contain technology provided to us by other parties such as contractors, suppliers or customers. We may have little or no ability to determine in advance whether such technology infringes the intellectual property rights of a third party. Our contractors, suppliers and licensors may not be required to indemnify us in the event that a claim of infringement is asserted against us, or they may be required to indemnify us only up to a maximum amount, above which we would be responsible for any further costs or


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damages. Any of these claims or litigation may materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Furthermore, our success and future revenue growth will depend, in part, on our ability to protect our intellectual property. It is possible that competitors or other unauthorized third parties may obtain, copy, use or disclose our technologies and processes. Any of our existing or future patents may be challenged, invalidated or circumvented. We engage in litigation to enforce or defend our intellectual property rights, protect our trade secrets, or determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others, including our customers. If our intellectual property rights do not adequately protect our technology, our competitors may be able to offer products similar to ours.
Our software may be derived from “open source” software, which is generally made available to the public by its authorsand/or other third parties. Open source software is often made available under licenses, which impose certain obligations in the event we distribute derivative works of the open source software. These obligations may require us to make source code for the derivative works available to the public,and/or license such derivative works on different terms than those customarily used to protect our intellectual property. With respect to our proprietary software, we generally license such software under terms that prohibit combining it with open source software. Despite these restrictions, parties may combine our proprietary software with open source software without our authorization, in which case we might nonetheless be required to release the source code of our proprietary software.
We enter into confidentiality agreements with our employees, consultants and strategic partners. We also control access to and distribution of our technologies, documentation and other proprietary information. Despite these efforts, internal or external parties may attempt to copy, disclose, obtain or use our products, services or technology without our authorization. Additionally, current, departing or former employees or third parties could attempt to penetrate our computer systems and networks to misappropriate our proprietary information and technology or interrupt our business. Because the techniques used by computer hackers and others to access or sabotage networks change frequently and generally are not recognized until launched against a target, we may be unable to anticipate, counter or ameliorate these techniques. As a result, our technologies and processes may be misappropriated.
We cannot assure you that our efforts to prevent the misappropriation or infringement of our intellectual property or the intellectual property of our customers will succeed. Identifying unauthorized use of our products and technologies is difficult and time consuming. The initiation of litigation may adversely affect our relationships and agreements with certain customers that have a stake in the outcome of the litigation proceedings. Litigation is very expensive and may divert the attention of management and other key employees from the operation of the business, which could negatively impact our business and results of operations.
Our business is subject to potential tax liabilities.
We are subject to income taxes in the United States and various foreign jurisdictions. The amount of income taxes we pay is subject to our interpretation and application of tax laws in jurisdictions in which we file. Changes in current or future laws or regulations, or the imposition of new or changed tax laws or regulations or new related interpretations by taxing authorities in the U.S. or foreign jurisdictions, could adversely affect our results of operations. We are subject to examinations and tax audits. There can be no assurance that the outcomes from these audits will not have an adverse effect on our net operating loss and research and development tax credit carryforwards, our financial position, or our operating results.
In certain foreign jurisdictions, we operate under tax holidays and favorable tax incentives. For instance, in Singapore we operate under tax holidays that reduce taxes on substantially all of our operating income in that jurisdiction. Such tax holidays and incentives often require us to meet specified employment and investment criteria in such jurisdictions. In a period of tight manufacturing capacity, our ability to meet Singaporean content in our products may be more limited, which may have adverse tax consequences. More generally, if any of our tax holidays or incentives are terminated or if we fail to meet the criteria to continue to enjoy such holidays or incentives, our results of operations may be materially and adversely affected.


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We are subject to order and shipment uncertainties.
It is difficult to accurately predict demand for our semiconductor products. We typically sell products pursuant to purchase orders rather than long-term purchase commitments. Customers can generally cancel, change or defer purchase orders on short notice without incurring a significant penalty. Our ability to accurately forecast customer demand is further impaired by delays inherent in our lengthy sales cycle. We operate in a dynamic industry and use significant resources to develop new products for existing and new markets. After we have developed a product, there is no guarantee that our customers will integrate our product into their equipment or devices and, ultimately, bring those equipment and devices incorporating our product to market. In these situations, we may never produce or deliver a significant number of our products, even after incurring substantial development expenses. From the time a customer elects to integrate our solution into their product, it is typically six to 24 months before high volume production of that product commences. After volume production begins, we cannot be assured that the equipment or devices incorporating our product will gain market acceptance.
Our products are incorporated into complex devices and systems, creating supply chain cross- dependencies. Accordingly, supply chain disruptions affecting components of our customers’ devicesand/or systems could negatively impact the demand for our products, even if the supply of our products is not directly affected.
Our product demand forecasts are based on multiple assumptions, each of which may introduce error into our estimates. In the event we overestimate customer demand, we may allocate resources to manufacturing products that we may not be able to sell. As a result, we could hold excess or obsolete inventory, which would reduce our profit margins and adversely affect our financial results. Conversely, if we underestimate customer demand or if insufficient manufacturing capacity is available, we could forego revenue opportunities and potentially lose market share and damage our customer relationships. Also, due to our industry’s shift to“just-in-time” inventory management, any disruption in the supply chain could lead to more immediate shortages in product or component supply. In addition, an increasing percentage of our inventory is maintained under hubbing arrangements whereby products are delivered to a customer or third party warehouse based upon the customer’s projected needs. Under these arrangements, we do not recognize product revenue until the customer reports that it has removed our product from the warehouse to incorporate into its end products. Our ability to effectively manage inventory levels may be impaired under our hubbing arrangements, which could increase expenses associated with excess and obsolete product inventory and negatively impact our cash flow.
We manufacture and sell complex products and may be unable to successfully develop and introduce new products.
We expect that a high percentage of our future sales will come from sales of new products. We sell products in markets that are characterized by rapid technological change, evolving industry standards, frequent new product introductions and short product life cycles. The markets for some of these products are new to us and may be immatureand/or unpredictable. These markets may not develop into profitable opportunities and we have invested substantial resources in emerging technologies that did not achieve the market acceptance that we had expected. As a result, it is difficult to anticipate our future revenue streams from, or the sustainability of, our new products.
Our industry is dynamic and we are required to devote significant resources to research and development to remain competitive. The development of new silicon devices is highly complex, and due to supply chain cross-dependencies and other issues, we may experience delays in completing the development, production and introduction of our new products. We may choose to discontinue one or more products or product development programs to dedicate more resources to other products. The discontinuation of an existing or planned product may adversely affect our relationship with one or more of our customers.
Our ability to successfully develop and deliver new products will depend on various factors, including our ability to:
• effectively identify and capitalize upon opportunities in new markets;
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• transition our semiconductor products to increasingly smaller line width geometries;
• license any desired third party technology or intellectual property rights;
• obtain sufficient foundry capacity and packaging materials; and
• qualify and obtain industry interoperability certification of our products.
If we are not able to develop and introduce new products in a cost effective and timely manner, we will be unable to attract new customers or to retain our existing customers which would materially and adversely affect our results of operations.
We have experienced hardware and software defects and bugs associated with the introduction of our highly complex products. If any of our products contain defects or bugs, or have reliability, quality or compatibility problems, our reputation may be damaged and customers may be reluctant to buy our products. These problems could interrupt or delay sales and shipments of our products to customers. To alleviate these problems, we may have to divert our resources from other development efforts. In addition, these problems could result in claims against us by our customers or others, including possible claims for consequential damagesand/or lost profits.
We are exposed to risks associated with our international operations.
We currently obtain substantially all of our manufacturing, assembly and testing services from suppliers located outside the United States. Products shipped to international destinations, primarily in Asia, represented 98.6%, and 96.6% of our product revenue in the six months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010, respectively. In addition, we undertake various sales and marketing activities through regional offices in a number of countries. We intend to continue expanding our international business activities and to open other design and operational centers abroad.
International operations are subject to many inherent risks, including but not limited to:
• political, social and economic instability;
• exposure to different business practices and legal standards, particularly with respect to intellectual property;
• continuation of overseas conflicts and the risk of terrorist attacks and resulting heightened security;
• the imposition of governmental controls and restrictions and unexpected changes in regulatory requirements;
• nationalization of business and blocking of cash flows;
• changes in taxation and tariffs; and
• difficulties in staffing and managing international operations.
Economic conditions in our primary overseas markets, particularly in Asia, may negatively impact the demand for our products abroad. In particular, the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan have disrupted the global supply chain for components manufactured in Japan that are incorporated in our products or included in the end user products of our customers. Due to cross dependencies, supply chain disruptions stemming from the occurrences in Japan could negatively impact the demand for our products including, for example, if our customers are unable to obtain sufficient supply of other components required for their end products. We continue to monitor the effect of the events in Japan on end demand patterns and inventory levels throughout the supply chain. Also, all of our international sales to date have been denominated in U.S. dollars. Accordingly, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to foreign currencies could make our products less competitive in international markets or require us to assume the risk of denominating certain sales in foreign currencies. We anticipate that these factors will impact our business to a greater degree as we further expand our international business activities.


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We depend on third parties to fabricate, assemble and test our products.
As a fabless semiconductor company, we do not own or operate fabrication, assembly or test facilities. We rely on third parties to manufacture, assemble and test substantially all of our semiconductor devices. Accordingly, we cannot directly control our product delivery schedules and quality assurance. This lack of control could result in product shortages or quality assurance problems. These issues could delay shipments of our products or increase our assembly or testing costs. In addition, the increasing capital intensity associated with fabrication in smaller process geometries may limit our diversity of suppliers.
We do not have long-term agreements with any of our direct or indirect suppliers, including our manufacturing, assembly or test subcontractors. We typically procure services from these suppliers on a per order basis. In the event our third-party foundry subcontractors experience a disruption or limitation of manufacturing, assembly or testing capacity, we may not be able to obtain alternative manufacturing, assembly and testing services in a timely manner, or at all. Furthermore, our foundries must have new manufacturing processes qualified if there is a disruption in an existing process, which could be time-consuming. We could experience significant delays in product shipments if we are required to find alternative manufactures, assemblers or testers for our products. We are continuing to develop relationships with additional third-party subcontractors to assemble and test our products.
Because we rely on outside foundries and other third party suppliers, we face several significant risks in addition to those discussed above, including:
• a lack of guaranteed supply of wafers and other components and potential higher wafer and component prices due to supply constraints;
• the limited availability of, or potential delays in obtaining access to, key process technologies; and
• the location of foundries and other suppliers in regions that are subject to earthquakes, tsunamis and other natural disasters.
The manufacture of integrated circuits is a highly complex and technologically demanding process. Our foundries have from time to time experienced lower than anticipated manufacturing yields. This often occurs during the production of new products or the installation andstart-up of new process technologies. In addition, we are dependent on our foundry subcontractors to successfully transition to smaller geometry processes.
We may be unable to attract, retain or motivate key personnel.
Our future success depends on our ability to attract, retain and motivate senior management and qualified technical personnel. Competition for these employees is intense. If we are unable to attract, retain and motivate such personnel in sufficient numbers and on a timely basis, we will experience difficulty in implementing our current business and product plans. In that event, we may be unable to successfully meet competitive challenges or to exploit potential market opportunities, which could adversely affect our business and results of operations.
Government regulation may adversely affect our business.
The effects of regulation on our customers or the industries in which they operate may materially and adversely impact our business. For example, the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, has broad jurisdiction in the United States over many of the devices into which our products are incorporated. FCC regulatory policies that affect the ability of cable or satellite operators or telephone companies to offer certain services to their customers or other aspects of their business may impede sales of our products in the United States. In addition, we may experience delays if a product incorporating our chips fails to comply with FCC emissions specifications.
We and our customers are subject to various import and export laws and regulations. Government export regulations apply to the encryption or other features contained in some of our products. If we fail to continue to receive licenses or otherwise comply with these regulations, we may be unable to manufacture the affected products at foreign foundries or ship these products to certain customers, or we may incur penalties or fines.


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Our business may also be subject to regulation by countries other than the United States. Foreign governments may impose tariffs, duties and other import restrictions on components that we obtain from non-domestic suppliers and may impose export restrictions on products that we sell internationally. These tariffs, duties or restrictions could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
There can be no assurance that we will continue to declare cash dividends.
In January 2010, our Board of Directors adopted a dividend policy pursuant to which Broadcom would pay quarterly dividends on our common stock. In January 2011, our Board of Directors increased the quarterly dividend payment. We intend to continue to pay such dividends subject to capital availability and periodic determinations by our Board of Directors that cash dividends are in the best interest of our shareholders and are in compliance with all laws and agreements of Broadcom applicable to the declaration and payment of cash dividends.
Future dividends may be affected by, among other factors:
• our views on potential future capital requirements for investments in acquisitions and the funding of our research and development;
• stock repurchase programs;
• changes in federal and state income tax laws or corporate laws; and
• changes to our business model.
Our dividend payments may change from time to time, and we cannot provide assurance that we will continue to increase our dividend payment or declare dividends in any particular amounts or at all. A reduction in our dividend payments could have a negative effect on our stock price.
Our articles of incorporation and bylaws contain anti-takeover provisions.
Our articles of incorporation and bylaws contain provisions that could make it more difficult for a third party to acquire a majority of our outstanding voting stock. For example, our Board of Directors may also issue shares of Class B common stock in connection with certain acquisitions, which have superior voting rights entitling the holder to ten votes for each share held on matters that we submit to a shareholder vote (as compared to one vote per share in the case of our Class A common stock) as well as the right to vote separately as a class. In addition, our Board of Directors has the authority to fix the rights and preferences of shares of our preferred stock and to issue shares of common or preferred stock without a shareholder vote. These provisions, among others, may discourage certain types of transactions involving an actual or potential change in our control.
Our co-founders and their affiliates may control the outcome of matters that require the approval of our shareholders.
As of June 30, 2011 our co-founders, directors, executive officers and their respective affiliates beneficially owned 11.0% of our outstanding common stock and held 52.5% of the total voting power held by our shareholders. Accordingly, these shareholders currently have enough voting power to control the outcome of matters that require the approval of our shareholders. These matters include the election of our Board of Directors, the issuance of additional shares of Class B common stock, and the approval of most significant corporate transactions, including certain mergers and consolidations and the sale of substantially all of our assets. In particular, as of June 30, 2011 our two founders, Dr. Henry T. Nicholas III and Dr. Henry Samueli, beneficially owned a total of 9.9% of our outstanding common stock and held 52.1% of the total voting power held by our shareholders. Because of their significant voting stock ownership, we will not be able to engage in certain transactions, and our shareholders will not be able to effect certain actions or transactions, without the approval of one or both of these shareholders. Repurchases of shares of our Class A common stock under our


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share repurchase program would result in an increase in the total voting power of our co-founders, directors, executive officers and their affiliates, as well as other continuing shareholders.
Risks Related to the Notes
The notes are structurally subordinated, which may affect your ability to receive payments on the notes.
The notes are obligations exclusively of Broadcom Corporation. We currently conduct a significant portion of our operations through our subsidiaries and our subsidiaries have significant liabilities. In addition, we may, and in some cases we have plans to, conduct additional operations through our subsidiaries in the future and, accordingly, our subsidiaries’ liabilities will increase. Our cash flow and our ability to service our debt, including the notes, therefore partially depends upon the earnings of our subsidiaries, and we depend on the distribution of earnings, loans or other payments by those subsidiaries to us.
Our subsidiaries are separate and distinct legal entities. Our subsidiaries have no obligation to pay any amounts due on the notes or, subject to existing or future contractual obligations between us and our subsidiaries, to provide us with funds for our payment obligations, whether by dividends, distributions, loans or other payments. In addition, any payment of dividends, distributions, loans or advances by our subsidiaries to us could be subject to statutory or contractual restrictions and taxes on distributions. Payments to us by our subsidiaries will also be contingent upon our subsidiaries’ earnings and business considerations.
Our right to receive any assets of any of our subsidiaries upon liquidation or reorganization, and, as a result, the right of the holders of the notes to participate in those assets, will be effectively subordinated to the claims of that subsidiary’s creditors, including trade creditors and preferred shareholders, if any. The notes do not restrict the ability of our subsidiaries to incur additional liabilities. In addition, even if we were a creditor of any of our subsidiaries, our rights as a creditor would be subordinate to any security interest in the assets of our subsidiaries and any indebtedness of our subsidiaries senior to indebtedness held by us.
The notes are subject to prior claims of any secured creditors, and if a default occurs, we may not have sufficient funds to fulfill our obligations under the notes.
The notes are our senior unsecured general obligations, ranking equally with all of our other existing and future senior unsecured indebtedness. The indenture governing the notes permits us and our subsidiaries to incur additional secured debt under specified circumstances. If we incur any secured debt, all or a portion of our assets and the assets of our subsidiaries will be subject to prior claims by our secured creditors. In the event of our bankruptcy, liquidation, reorganization, dissolution or other winding up, assets that secure debt will be available to pay obligations on the notes only after all debt secured by those assets has been repaid in full. Holders of the notes will participate in our remaining assets ratably with all of our other unsecured and senior creditors, including our trade creditors.
As of June 30, 2011, we had no material secured indebtedness.
We may still be able to incur substantially more indebtedness.
We may be able to incur substantial indebtedness in the future. The terms of the indenture governing the notes will not prohibit us from doing so. If we incur any additional indebtedness that ranks equally with the notes, the holders of that indebtedness will be entitled to share ratably with the holders of the notes in any proceeds distributed in connection with any insolvency, liquidation, reorganization, dissolution or other winding up of our company.
We may not be able to purchase all of the notes upon a change of control triggering event, which would result in a default under the notes.
We will be required to offer to purchase the notes upon the occurrence of a change of control triggering event as provided in the indenture governing the notes. However, we may not have sufficient funds to purchase the notes in cash at the time of any change of control triggering event. In addition, our ability to purchase the notes for cash may be limited by law or the terms or other agreements relating to our indebtedness outstanding


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at the time. Accordingly, we may not be able to satisfy our obligations to purchase your notes unless we are able to refinance or obtain consents from the holders of such indebtedness. Our failure to purchase the notes upon a change of control triggering event would cause a default under the indenture and could cause a cross-default or acceleration under certain agreements governing our other indebtedness.
The limited covenants in the indenture for the notes and the terms of the notes do not provide protection against some types of important corporate events and may not protect your investment.
The indenture for the notes does not:
• require us to maintain any financial ratios or specific levels of net worth, revenues, income, cash flow or liquidity and, accordingly, does not protect holders of the notes in the event that we experience significant adverse changes in our financial condition or results of operations;
• limit our subsidiaries’ ability to incur indebtedness, which could effectively rank senior to the notes;
• limit our ability to incur substantial secured indebtedness that would effectively rank senior to the notes to the extent of the value of the assets securing the indebtedness;
• limit our ability to incur indebtedness that is equal in right of payment to the notes;
• restrict our subsidiaries’ ability to issue securities or otherwise incur indebtedness that would be senior to our equity interests in our subsidiaries;
• restrict our ability to repurchase or prepay our securities; or
• restrict our ability to make investments or to repurchase or pay dividends or make other payments in respect of our common stock or other securities ranking junior to the notes.
Furthermore, the indenture for the notes contains only limited protections in the event of a change in control. We could engage in many types of transactions, such as certain acquisitions, refinancings or recapitalizations that could substantially affect our capital structure and the value of the notes. For these reasons, you should not consider the covenants in the indenture as a significant factor in evaluating whether to invest in the notes.
Illiquidity and an absence of a public market for the notes could cause purchasers of the notes to be unable to resell the notes.
The notes constitute a new issue of securities for which there is no established trading market. We do not intend to apply for listing of the notes on any securities exchange or for quotation of the notes on any automated dealer quotation system. An active trading market for the notes may not develop or, if such market develops, it could be very illiquid.
Holders of the notes may experience difficulty in reselling, or an inability to sell, the notes. If no active trading market develops, the market price and liquidity of the notes may be adversely affected, and you may not be able to resell your notes at their fair market value, at the initial offering price or at all. If a market for the notes develops, any such market may be discontinued at any time. If a trading market develops for the notes, future trading prices of the notes will depend on many factors, including, among other things, prevailing interest rates, our operating results, liquidity of the issue, the market for similar securities and other factors, including our financial condition and prospects and the financial condition and prospects in our industry.
A downgrade of our credit ratings could adversely impact your investment in the notes.
We are subject to periodic review by independent credit rating agencies. Increases in the level of our outstanding indebtedness, repurchases of our equity by us, or other events could cause the rating agencies to downgrade, place on negative watch or change their outlook on our debt credit rating generally, and the ratings on the notes, which could adversely impact the trading prices for, or the liquidity of, the notes. Any such downgrade, placement on negative watch or change in outlook could also adversely affect our cost of


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borrowing, limit our access to the capital markets or result in more restrictive covenants in future debt agreements.
The credit ratings assigned to the notes may not reflect all risks of an investment in the notes.
The credit ratings assigned to the notes reflect the rating agencies’ assessments of our ability to make payments on the notes when due. Consequently, actual or anticipated changes in these credit ratings will generally affect the market value of the notes. These credit ratings, however, may not reflect the potential impact of risks related to structure, market or other factors related to the value of the notes.
Risks Related to the Exchange Offers
Holders who fail to exchange their old notes will continue to be subject to restrictions on transfer and may have reduced liquidity after the exchange offers.
If you do not exchange your old notes in the exchange offers, you will continue to be subject to the restrictions on transfer applicable to your old notes. The restrictions on transfer of your old notes arise because we issued the old notes under exemptions from, or in transactions not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws. In general, you may only offer or sell the old notes if they are registered under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws, or are offered and sold under an exemption from these requirements. We currently do not plan toanticipate that we will register the oldresale of the outstanding notes under the Securities Act.
Furthermore, we have not conditioned the exchange offers

See “Risk Factors” beginning on receiptpage 15 for a discussion of any minimum or maximum principal amount of old notes. As old notes are tendered and acceptedcertain risks that you should consider before participating in the exchange offers, the principal amount of remaining outstanding old notes will decrease. This decrease could reduce the liquidity of the trading market for the old notes. We cannot assure you of the liquidity, or even the continuation, of the trading market for the outstanding old notes following the exchange offers.

For further information regarding the consequences of not tendering your old notes in the exchange offers, see the discussions below under the captions “The Exchange Offers — Consequences of Exchanging or Failing to Exchange Old Notes” and “Material United States Federal Income Tax Considerations.”
You must comply with the exchange offer procedures to receive new notes.offer.
Delivery of new notes in exchange for old notes tendered and accepted for exchange pursuant to the exchange offers will be made only after timely receipt by the exchange agent of the following:
• certificates for old notes or a book-entry confirmation of a book-entry transfer of old notes into the exchange agent’s account at DTC, New York, New York as a depository, including an agent’s message, as defined in this prospectus, if the tendering holder does not deliver a letter of transmittal;
• a complete and signed letter of transmittal, or facsimile copy, with any required signature guarantees, or, in the case of a book-entry transfer, an agent’s message in place of the letter of transmittal; and
• any other documents required by the letter of transmittal.
Therefore, holders of old notes who would like to tender old notes in exchange for new notes should be sure to allow enough time for the necessary documents to be timely received by the exchange agent. We are not required to notify you of defects or irregularities in tenders of old notes for exchange. Old notes that are not tendered or that are tendered but we do not accept for exchange will, following consummation of the exchange offers, continue to be subject to the existing transfer restrictions under the Securities Act and will no longer have the registration and other rights under the registration rights agreement. See “The Exchange Offers — Procedures for Tendering Old Notes” and “The Exchange Offers — Consequences of Exchanging or Failing to Exchange Old Notes.”


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Some holders who exchange their old notes may be deemed to be underwriters, and these holders will be required to comply with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements in connection with any resale transaction.
If you exchange your old notes in the exchange offers for the purpose of participating in a distribution of the new notes, you may be deemed to have received restricted securities. If you are deemed to have received restricted securities, you will be required to comply with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale transaction.
In addition, a broker-dealer that purchased old notes for its own account as part of market-making or trading activities must deliver a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act when it sells new notes it receives in an exchange offer. Our obligation to make this prospectus available to broker-dealers is limited. We cannot guarantee that a proper prospectus will be available to broker-dealers wishing to resell their new notes.


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USE OF PROCEEDS
These exchange offers are intended to satisfy our obligations under the registration rights agreement that was executed in connection with the sale of the old notes. We will not receive any proceeds from the exchange offers. You will receive, in exchange for the old notes tendered by you and accepted by us in the exchange offers, new notes in the same principal amount. The old notes surrendered in exchange for the new notes of the respective series will be retired and will not result in any increase in our outstanding debt. Any tendered but unaccepted old notes will be returned to you and will remain outstanding.
RATIO OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES
The following table sets forth our ratio of earnings to fixed charges for the six months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010, and the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 and 2006, respectively:
                             
  For the Six Months
 For the Fiscal Year Ended
  Ended June 30, December 31,
  2011 2010 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006
 
Ratio of earnings to fixed charges  18.2x  39.8x  40.0x  4.0x  10.3x  10.6x  19.5x 


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THE EXCHANGE OFFERS; REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT
Terms of the Exchange Offers; Period for Tendering Old Notes
On the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this prospectus, we will accept for exchange old notes that are validly tendered prior to the expiration date and not withdrawn as permitted below. When we refer to the term expiration date, we mean 5:00 p.m., New York City time, [ • ], 2011. We may, however, extend the period of time that the exchange offers are open or earlier terminate the exchange offers. If we extend the exchange offers, the term expiration date means the latest time and date to which the exchange offers are extended.
As of the date of this prospectus, $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 1.500% Senior Notes due 2013 (the “old 2013 notes”) and $400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2.375% Senior Notes due 2015 (the “old 2015 notes”) are outstanding and were issued under the indenture dated November 1, 2010, as supplemented by the supplemental indenture dated as of November 1, 2010 (as so supplemented, the “indenture”). We are sending this prospectus, together with the letter of transmittal, to all holders of old notes known to us on the date of this prospectus.
We expressly reserve the right to extend the period of time that the exchange offers are open, and delay acceptance for exchange of any old notes, by giving oral or written notice of an extension to the holders of the old notes as described below. During any extension, all old notes previously tendered will remain subject to the exchange offers and may be accepted for exchange by us. Any old notes not accepted for exchange for any reason will be returned without expense to the tendering holder as promptly as practicable after the expiration or termination of the exchange offers.
Old notes tendered in the exchange offers must be in denominations of principal amount of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess of $2,000.
We expressly reserve the right to amend or terminate the exchange offers, and not to exchange any old notes, upon the occurrence of any of the conditions to the exchange offers specified under “The Exchange Offers — Conditions to the Exchange Offers.” In the event of a material change in the exchange offers, including the waiver of a material condition, we will extend the offer period if necessary so that at least five (5) business days remain in the offer following notice of the material change. We will give oral or written notice of any extension, amendment, non-acceptance or termination to the holders of the old notes as promptly as practicable. In the case of any extension, we will issue a notice by means of a press release or other public announcement no later than 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the next business day after the previously scheduled expiration date.
Procedures for Tendering Old Notes
Your tender to us of old notes as set forth below and our acceptance of old notes will constitute a binding agreement between us and you on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this prospectus and in the accompanying letter of transmittal. Except as set forth below, to tender old notes for exchange in the exchange offers, you must transmit a properly completed and duly executed letter of transmittal, including all other documents required by the letter of transmittal or, in the case of a book-entry transfer, an agent’s message in place of the letter of transmittal, to Wilmington Trust, National Association, as exchange agent, at the address set forth below under “The Exchange Offers — Exchange Agent” prior to the expiration date. In addition:
• certificates for old notes must be received by the exchange agent prior to the expiration date, along with the letter of transmittal; or
• a timely confirmation of a book-entry transfer, which we refer to in this prospectus as a book-entry confirmation, of old notes, if this procedure is available, into the exchange agent’s account at DTC pursuant to the procedure for book-entry transfer described beginning on page 27 must be received by the exchange agent prior to the expiration date, with the letter of transmittal or an agent’s message in place of the letter of transmittal; or
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The term “agent’s message” means a message, transmitted by DTC to and received by the exchange agent and forming a part of a book-entry confirmation, which states that DTC has received an express acknowledgment from the tendering participant stating that such participant has received and agrees to be bound by the letter of transmittal and that we may enforce such letter of transmittal against such participant.
The method of delivery of old notes, letters of transmittal and all other required documents is at your election and risk. If such delivery is by mail, it is recommended that you use registered mail, properly insured, with return receipt requested. In all cases, you should allow sufficient time to assure timely delivery. No letter of transmittal or old notes should be sent to us.
Signatures on a letter of transmittal or a notice of withdrawal, as the case may be, must be guaranteed unless the old notes surrendered for exchange are tendered:
• by a holder of the old notes who has not completed the box entitled “Special Issuance Instructions” or “Special Delivery Instructions” on the letter of transmittal, or
• for the account of an Eligible Institution (as defined below).
In the event that signatures on a letter of transmittal or a notice of withdrawal are required to be guaranteed, such guarantees must be by a firm which is a member of the Securities Transfer Agent Medallion Program, the Stock Exchanges Medallion Program or the New York Stock Exchange Medallion Program (we refer to each such entity as an “Eligible Institution” in this prospectus). If old notes are registered in the name of a person other than the signer of the letter of transmittal, the old notes surrendered for exchange must be endorsed by, or be accompanied by, a written instrument or instruments of transfer or exchange, in satisfactory form as we or the exchange agent determine, duly executed by the registered holders with the signature thereon guaranteed by an Eligible Institution.
We will make a final and binding determination on all questions as to the validity, form, eligibility, including time of receipt, and acceptance of old notes tendered for exchange. We reserve the absolute right to reject any and all tenders of any particular old note not properly tendered or to not accept any particular old note which acceptance might, in our or our counsel’s judgment, be unlawful. We also reserve the right to waive any defects or irregularities or conditions of the exchange offers as to any particular old note either before or after the expiration date, including the right to waive the ineligibility of any holder who seeks to tender old notes in the exchange offers. Our interpretation of the terms and conditions of the exchange offers as to any particular old note either before or after the expiration date, including the letter of transmittal and the instructions thereto, will be final and binding on all parties. Unless waived, any defects or irregularities in connection with tenders of old notes for exchange must be cured within a reasonable period of time, as we determine. We are not, nor is the exchange agent or any other person, under any duty to notify you of any defect or irregularity with respect to your tender of old notes for exchange, and no one will be liable for failing to provide such notification.
If the letter of transmittal is signed by a person or persons other than the registered holder or holders of old notes, such old notes must be endorsed or accompanied by powers of attorney signed exactly as the name(s) of the registered holder(s) that appear on the old notes.
If the letter of transmittal or any old notes or powers of attorneys are signed by trustees, executors, administrators, guardians, attorneys-in-fact, officers of corporations or others acting in a fiduciary or representative capacity, such persons should so indicate when signing. Unless waived by us, proper evidence satisfactory to us of their authority to so act must be submitted with the letter of transmittal.
By tendering old notes, you represent to us that, among other things:
• the holder is neither our “affiliate,” as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act, nor a broker-dealer tendering notes acquired directly from us for its own account;
• any new notes acquired pursuant to the exchange offers are being obtained in the ordinary course of business of the person receiving such new notes, whether or not such person is the holder; and


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• at the time of commencement of the exchange offers, neither the holder nor such other person has any arrangement or understanding with any person to participate in the distribution, as defined in the Securities Act, of the new notes in violation of the Securities Act.
In the case of a holder that is not a broker-dealer, that holder, by tendering, will also represent to us that such holder is not engaged in and does not intend to engage in a distribution, as defined in the Securities Act, of the new notes.
If you are our “affiliate,” as defined under Rule 405 under the Securities Act, and engage in or intend to engage in or have an arrangement or understanding with any person to participate in a distribution of such new notes to be acquired pursuant to the exchange offers, you or any such other person:
• cannot rely on the applicable interpretations of the staff of the SEC;
• will not be entitled to tender your old notes in the exchange offers; and
• must comply with the registration requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale transaction.
Each broker-dealer that receives new notes for its own account in exchange for old notes that were acquired as a result of market-making or other trading activities must acknowledge that it will comply with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any offer, resale or other transfer of the new notes issued in the exchange offers, including information with respect to any selling holder required by the Securities Act in connection with any resale of the new notes.
Furthermore, any broker-dealer that acquired any of its old notes directly from us:
• may not rely on the applicable interpretation of the staff of the SEC’s position contained in Exxon Capital Holdings Corp., SEC no-action letter (publicly available May 13, 1988), Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, SEC no-action letter (publicly available June 5, 1991) and Shearman & Sterling, SEC no-action letter (publicly available July 2, 1993); and
• must also be named as a selling noteholder in connection with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act relating to any resale transaction.
Each broker-dealer that receives new notes for its own account pursuant to the exchange offersoffer must acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of such newexchange notes. The letter of transmittal states that by so acknowledging and delivering a prospectus, a broker-dealer will not be deemed to admit that it is an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act. This prospectus, as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, may be used by a broker-dealer in connection with resales of newexchange notes received in exchange for oldoutstanding notes whichwhere such outstanding notes were receivedacquired by thesuch broker-dealer as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities. UnderIn addition, all dealers effecting transactions in the registration rights agreement weexchange notes may be required to deliver a prospectus. We have agreed that, for a period up to the earlier of (i) 120180 days fromafter the date the exchange offer registration statement is declared effective and (ii) the date on whichof this prospectus (or such shorter period if a broker-dealer is no longer required to deliver a prospectus in connection with market-making or other trading activities,the prospectus), we will make this prospectus available to any broker-dealer for use in connection with any such resale.resales. See “Plan of Distribution.”
Acceptance

If you are an affiliate of Oldours or any Guarantor, or are engaged in, or intend to engage in, or have an agreement or understanding to participate in, a distribution of the exchange notes, then you cannot rely on the applicable interpretations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and you must comply with the registration requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of the exchange notes.

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or passed upon the adequacy or accuracy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

The date of this prospectus is                     ,          .

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Where You Can Find More Information

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Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference

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Prospectus Summary

1

Summary Consolidated Financial Data

12

Risk Factors

15

Forward-Looking Statements

22

Capitalization

24

Use of Proceeds

25

The Exchange Offer

26

Description of Other Indebtedness

37

Description of Notes

38

Limitations on Validity and Enforceability of the Guarantees

61

Service of Process and Enforcement of Civil Liabilities

65

United States Federal Income Tax Considerations

66

Certain Cayman Islands Tax Considerations

67

Plan of Distribution

69

Legal Matters

70

Experts

70

You should rely only on the information contained or incorporated by reference in this prospectus or in any additional written communication prepared by or authorized by us. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with any information or represent anything about us, our financial results or the exchange offer that is not contained in or incorporated by reference into this prospectus or in any additional written communication prepared by or on behalf of us. If given or made, any such other information or representation should not be relied upon as having been authorized by us. We are not making an offer to exchange the outstanding notes in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted. You should assume that the information in this prospectus or in any additional written communication prepared by or on behalf of us is accurate only as of the date on its cover page and that any information incorporated by reference herein is accurate only as of the date of the document containing such information incorporated by reference.

None of the Issuers, the Guarantors, the trustee, the exchange agent or any of their respective affiliates makes any recommendation as to whether or not you should tender outstanding notes pursuant to the exchange offer, and no one has been authorized by any of them to make such recommendations. You should make your own decisions as to whether to tender outstanding notes, and, if so, the principal amount of outstanding notes to tender.

As used in this prospectus, unless otherwise indicated or required by the context, the terms “Broadcom,” “we,” “our,” “us” and the “Company” refer to Broadcom Parent and its consolidated subsidiaries, the term the “Issuers” refers only to the Issuers and not to any of their respective subsidiaries or parent companies and the term “Guarantors” refers only to the Guarantors and not to any of their respective subsidiaries or parent companies.

We report financial results on a 52- or 53-week fiscal year. Our fiscal year ends on the Sunday closest to October 31 in a52-week year and on the first Sunday in November in a 53-week year. We refer to our fiscal years by the calendar year in which they end. For example, the fiscal year ended October 29, 2017 is referred to as “fiscal year 2017.”

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WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

The Issuers and the Guarantors have filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a registration statement on FormS-4 under the Securities Act with respect to the exchange offer. This prospectus, which forms a part of the registration statement, does not contain all of the information set forth in the registration statement. For further information with respect to the Issuers, the Guarantors and the exchange notes, we refer you to the registration statement. Statements contained in this prospectus as to the contents of any contract or other document are not necessarily complete and, to the extent that contract or document is filed or incorporated as an exhibit to the registration statement, we refer you to the that exhibit.

Each of Broadcom Parent and Broadcom Cayman L.P. files annual, quarterly and other reports with the SEC. These SEC filings are available over the Internet at the SEC’s web site at http://www.sec.gov. You may also read and copy any document Broadcom Parent or Broadcom Cayman L.P. files at the SEC’s public reference room in Washington, D.C. Please call the SEC at1-800-SEC-0330 for more information on the public reference room and its copy charges.

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INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

The SEC allows us to “incorporate by reference” information into this prospectus, which means that we can disclose important information about us by referring you to those documents that are considered part of this prospectus but are filed separately with the SEC. Certain information that Broadcom Parent and Broadcom Cayman L.P. file after the date of this prospectus with the SEC will automatically update and supersede this information. We incorporate by reference into this prospectus the documents listed below, which Broadcom Parent and Broadcom Cayman L.P. have filed with the SEC under file numbers001-37690 and333-2025938, respectively, and any future filings made by Broadcom Parent and Broadcom Cayman L.P. with the SEC under sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), after the date of this prospectus and prior to the date the exchange offer is terminated (other than, in each case, documents or information deemed to have been furnished and not filed pursuant to Item 2.02 or 7.01 of Form8-K or certain exhibits furnished pursuant to Item 9.01 of Form8-K):

(1)Broadcom Parent’s and Broadcom Cayman L.P.’s Annual Report on Form10-K for the fiscal year ended October 29, 2017, filed with the SEC on December 21, 2017;

(2)Broadcom Parent’s and Broadcom Cayman L.P.’s Current Reports on Form8-K filed with the SEC on November 2, 2017, November 6, 2017, November 17, 2017 (other than Item 7.01 and Exhibit 99.1) and December 6, 2017 (Items 5.02 and 8.01 only); and

(3)Broadcom Parent’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A, filed with the SEC on February 17, 2017.

Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference into this prospectus will be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this prospectus to the extent that a statement contained in this prospectus or in any other subsequently filed document that also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference into this prospectus conflicts with, negates, modifies or supersedes that statement. Any statement that is modified or superseded will not constitute a part of this prospectus, except as modified or superseded.

See “Where You Can Find More Information” above for further information concerning how to obtain copies of these SEC filings.

We will provide without charge to each person to whom this prospectus is delivered, upon written or oral request, a copy of any and all of the documents that we incorporate by reference into this prospectus. You should direct requests for documents to:

Broadcom Limited

Attn: Investor Relations

1320 Ridder Park Drive

San Jose, California 95131 U.S.A.

Telephone: +1 (408)433-7400

These documents can also be requested through, and are available in, the Investor Center section of our website, which is located at http://www.broadcom.com. The information contained on our website is not incorporated by reference in this prospectus and you should not consider it a part of this prospectus.

IN ORDER TO OBTAIN TIMELY DELIVERY, YOU MUST REQUEST THE INFORMATION NO LATER THAN                     , 2018, WHICH IS FIVE BUSINESS DAYS BEFORE THE EXPIRATION OF THE EXCHANGE OFFER.

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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

This summary highlights selected information contained elsewhere, or incorporated by reference, in this prospectus and may not contain all of the information that may be important to you. You should carefully read this together with the entire prospectus, and the documents incorporated by reference, including the “Risk Factors” section, the historical financial statements and the notes to those financial statements.

Broadcom

We are a leading designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of semiconductor devices with a focus on complex digital and mixed signal complementary metal oxide semiconductor (“CMOS”) based devices and analogIII-V based products. We have a history of innovation and offer thousands of products that are used in end products such as enterprise and data center networking, home connectivity,set-top boxes, broadband access, telecommunication equipment, mobile handsets and base stations, data center servers and storage systems, factory automation, power generation and alternative energy systems, and electronic displays. We differentiate ourselves through our high performance design and integration capabilities and focus on developing products for target markets where we believe we can earn attractive margins.

Corporate Information

The Singapore company registration number of Broadcom Parent is 201505572G. The address of our registered office is 1 Yishun Avenue 7, Singapore 768923, and our telephone number is+65-6755-7888. All of our operations are conducted through our various subsidiaries, which are organized and operated according to the laws of their country of incorporation, and consolidated by Broadcom Parent.

The address of Broadcom Cayman L.P.’s registered office is P.O. Box 309, Ugland House, Grand Cayman,KY1-1104, Cayman Islands.

The address of Broadcom Corporation is 1320 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose, California 95131.

The address of Cayman Finance’s registered office is P.O. Box 309, Ugland House, Grand Cayman,KY1-1104, Cayman Islands.

The website address of Broadcom Parent is www.broadcom.com. The information on, or accessible through, our website is not part of this prospectus.



Corporate Structure

The following chart summarizes our corporate structure. This chart is provided for illustrative purposes only and does not represent all legal entities affiliated with, or all obligations of, the Issuers or the Guarantors:

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The Exchange Offer

In this prospectus, (1) the term “outstanding notes” refers to the outstanding 2.375% Senior Notes due 2020 (the “2020 Notes”), 3.000% Senior Notes due 2022 (the “2022 Notes”), 3.625% Senior Notes due 2024 (the “2024 Notes”), 3.875% Senior Notes due 2027 (the “2027 Notes”), 2.200% Senior Notes due 2021 (the “2021 Notes”), 2.650% Senior Notes due 2023 (the “2023 Notes”), 3.125% Senior Notes due 2025 (the “2025 Notes”) and 3.500% Senior Notes due 2028 (the “2028 Notes”), the related guarantees of the 2020 Notes, 2022 Notes, 2024 Notes and 2027 Notes issued in a private placement on January 19, 2017 for Exchange; Deliverya total aggregate principal amount of New$13,550,000,000 and the related guarantees of the 2021 Notes, the 2023 Notes, the 2025 Notes and the 2028 Notes issued in a private placement on October 17, 2017 for a total aggregate principal amount of $4,000,000,000; (2) the term “exchange notes” refers to the 2020 Notes, 2022 Notes, 2024 Notes, 2027 Notes, the 2021 Notes, the 2023 Notes, the 2025 Notes and the 2028 Notes and the related guarantees offered by this prospectus in exchange for the outstanding notes; and (3) the term “notes” refers, collectively, to the outstanding notes and the exchange notes.

The summary below describes the principal terms of the exchange offer. See also the section of this prospectus titled “The Exchange Offer,” which contains a more detailed description of the terms and conditions of the exchange offer.

General

In connection with private placements completed in January 2017 and October 2017, we entered into registration rights agreements with the purchasers of the outstanding notes in which we agreed, among other things, to use our commercially reasonable efforts to cause the exchange offer described in this prospectus to be consummated on the earliest practicable date after the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part has become effective, but in no event later than July 13, 2018 (in the case of the 2020 Notes, the 2022 Notes, the 2024 Notes and the 2027 Notes) and April 10, 2019 (in the case of the 2021 Notes, the 2023 Notes, the 2025 Notes and the 2028 Notes). You are entitled to exchange in the exchange offer your outstanding notes for exchange notes, which are identical in all material respects to the outstanding notes except:

the offer and sale of the exchange notes will have been registered under the Securities Act;

the exchange notes are not entitled to any registration rights that are applicable to the outstanding notes under the registration rights agreements; and

the provisions of the registration rights agreements that provide for payment of additional amounts upon a registration default are no longer applicable.

The Exchange Offer

We are offering to exchange up to $2,750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2020 Notes and the related guarantees, $3,500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2022 Notes and the related guarantees, $2,500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2024 Notes and the related guarantees, $4,800,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2027 Notes and the related guarantees, $750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2021 Notes and the related guarantees,



$1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2023 Notes and the related guarantees, $1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2025 Notes and the related guarantees, $1,250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2028 Notes and the related guarantees, in each case the offer and sale of which have been registered under the Securities Act, for any and all of outstanding 2020 Notes and the related guarantees, 2022 Notes and the related guarantees, 2024 Notes and the related guaranteed, 2027 Notes and the related guarantees, 2021 Notes and the related guarantees, 2023 Notes and the related guarantees, 2025 Notes and the related guarantees, 2028 Notes and the related guarantees, respectively.

Outstanding notes may be exchanged only in minimum denominations of $2,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

Subject to the satisfaction or waiver of specified conditions, we will exchange the exchange notes for all outstanding notes that are validly tendered and not validly withdrawn prior to the expiration of the exchange offer. We will cause the exchange to be effected promptly after the expiration of the exchange offer.

Resale

Based on interpretations by the staff of the SEC set forth inno-action letters issued to third parties, we believe that the exchange notes issued pursuant to the exchange offer in exchange for outstanding notes may be offered for resale, resold and otherwise transferred by you (unless you are our “affiliate” within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act) without the requirement to comply with the registration and prospectus-delivery provisions of the Securities Act, provided that:

you are acquiring the exchange notes in the ordinary course of your business; and

you have not engaged in, do not intend to engage in, and have no arrangement or understanding with any person to participate in, a distribution of the exchange notes.

If you are a broker-dealer and receive exchange notes for your own account in exchange for outstanding notes that you acquired as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities, you must acknowledge that you will deliver this prospectus in connection with any resale of the exchange notes. See “Plan of Distribution.”

Expiration Date

The exchange offer expires at 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on                     , 2018, unless extended by us. We do not currently intend to extend the expiration date.

Withdrawal

You may withdraw any tender of your outstanding notes at any time prior to the expiration of the exchange offer. We will return to you any of your outstanding notes that are not accepted for any reason for



exchange, without expense to you, promptly after the expiration or termination of the exchange offer.

Interest on the Exchange Notes and
the Outstanding Notes

The exchange notes bear interest at the following rates: 2.375% per annum for the 2020 Notes; 3.000% per annum for the 2022 Notes; 3.625% per annum for the 2024 Notes; 3.875% per annum for the 2027 Notes; 2.200% per annum for the 2021 Notes; 2.650% per annum for the 2023 Notes; 3.125% per annum for the 2025 Notes; and 3.500% per annum for the 2028 Notes. In each case, the exchange notes bear interest from the most recent date on which interest has been paid on the notes. The interest on the notes is payable on January 15 and July 15 of each year. No interest will be paid on outstanding notes following their acceptance for exchange.

Conditions to the Exchange Offer

The exchange offer is subject to customary conditions, which we may assert or waive. See “The Exchange Offer—Conditions to the Exchange Offer.”

Procedures for Tendering Outstanding Notes

Unless you hold your notes through The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”), if you wish to participate in the exchange offer, you must complete, sign and date the accompanying letter of transmittal, or a facsimile of the letter of transmittal, according to the instructions contained in this prospectus and the letter of transmittal. You must then mail or otherwise deliver the letter of transmittal, or a facsimile of the letter of transmittal, together with the outstanding notes and any other required documents, to the exchange agent at the address set forth on the cover page of the letter of transmittal.

If you hold outstanding notes through DTC and wish to participate in the exchange offer, you must comply with the procedures under DTC’s Automated Tender Offer Program by which you will agree to be bound by the letter of transmittal. By signing, or agreeing to be bound by, the letter of transmittal, you will represent to us that, among other things:

you do not have an arrangement or understanding with any person or entity to participate in the distribution of the exchange notes;

you are not an “affiliate” of ours or of any guarantor within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act;

you are not engaged in, and do not intend to engage in, a distribution of the exchange notes;

you are acquiring the exchange notes in the ordinary course of your business; and

if you are a broker-dealer that receives exchange notes for your own account in exchange for outstanding notes that were acquired as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities, that you will deliver a prospectus, as required by law, in connection with any resale of such exchange notes.



Special Procedures for Beneficial Owners

If you are a beneficial owner of outstanding notes that are registered in the name of a broker, dealer, commercial bank, trust company or other nominee, and you wish to tender those outstanding notes in the exchange offer, you should contact the registered holder promptly and instruct the registered holder to tender those outstanding notes on your behalf. If you wish to tender on your own behalf, you must, prior to completing and executing the letter of transmittal and delivering your outstanding notes, either make appropriate arrangements to register ownership of the outstanding notes in your name or obtain a properly completed bond power from the registered holder. The transfer of registered ownership may take considerable time and may not be able to be completed prior to the expiration date.

Guaranteed Delivery Procedures

If you wish to tender your outstanding notes and your outstanding notes are not immediately available or you cannot deliver your outstanding notes, the letter of transmittal or any other required documents, or you cannot comply with the procedures under DTC’s Automated Tender Offer Program for transfer of book-entry interests, prior to the expiration date, you must tender your outstanding notes according to the guaranteed delivery procedures described under “The Exchange Offer—Guaranteed Delivery Procedures.”

Effect on Holders of Outstanding Notes

As a result of the making of, and upon acceptance for exchange of all validly tendered outstanding notes pursuant to the terms of, the exchange offer, we will have fulfilled a covenant under the registration rights agreements. Accordingly, there will be no increase in the applicable interest rate on the outstanding notes under the circumstances described in the registration rights agreements. If you do not tender your outstanding notes in the exchange offer, you will continue to be entitled to all the rights and limitations applicable to the outstanding notes as set forth in the indentures under which the outstanding notes were issued, except we will not have any further obligation to you to provide for the exchange and registration of the outstanding notes and related guarantees under the registration rights agreements. To the extent that outstanding notes are tendered and accepted in the exchange offer, the trading market for outstanding notes could be adversely affected.

Consequences of Failure to Exchange

All untendered outstanding notes will continue to be subject to the restrictions on transfer set forth in the outstanding notes and in the indentures under which the outstanding notes were issued. In general, the outstanding notes may not be offered or sold, except in a transaction that is registered under the Securities Act or pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws. Other than in connection with the exchange offer, we do not anticipate that we will register the offer and sale of the outstanding notes under the Securities Act.



U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences of the Exchange Offer

The exchange of outstanding notes for exchange notes in the exchange offer will not be a taxable event for United States federal income tax purposes. See “United States Federal Income Tax Considerations.”

Use of Proceeds

We will not receive any cash proceeds from the issuance of exchange notes in the exchange offer. See “Use of Proceeds.”

Exchange Agent

Wilmington Trust, National Association, is the exchange agent for the exchange offer. The address of the exchange agent is set forth under “The Exchange Offer—Exchange Agent.”



The Exchange Notes

The summary below describes the principal terms of the exchange notes. Certain of the terms and conditions described below are subject to important limitations and exceptions. The “Description of Notes” section of this prospectus contains more detailed descriptions of the terms and conditions of the outstanding notes and the exchange notes. The exchange notes will have terms identical in all material respects to the outstanding notes, except that the offer and sale of the exchange notes will be registered under the Securities Act and the exchange notes will not contain terms with respect to transfer restrictions, registration rights and additional payments upon a failure to fulfill certain of our obligations under the registration rights agreements.

Issuers

Broadcom Corporation, a California corporation, and Broadcom Cayman Finance Limited, an exempted company incorporated with limited liability under the laws of the Cayman Islands.

Securities Offered

$2,750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2.375% Senior Notes due 2020 (the “2020 Notes”) and the related guarantees.

$3,500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 3.000% Senior Notes due 2022 (the “2022 Notes”) and the related guarantees.

$2,500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 3.625% Senior Notes due 2024 (the “2024 Notes”) and the related guarantees.

$4,800,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 3.875% Senior Notes due 2027 (the “2027 Notes”) and the related guarantees.

$750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2.200% Senior Notes due 2021 (the “2021 Notes”) and the related guarantees.

$1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2.650% Senior Notes due 2023 (the “2023 Notes”) and the related guarantees.

$1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 3.125% Senior Notes due 2025 (the “2025 Notes”) and the related guarantees.

$1,250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 3.500% Senior Notes due 2028 (the “2028 Notes”) and the related guarantees.

Maturity

January 15, 2020 for the 2020 Notes.

January 15, 2022 for the 2022 Notes.

January 15, 2024 for the 2024 Notes.

January 15, 2027 for the 2027 Notes.

January 15, 2021 for the 2021 Notes.

January 15, 2023 for the 2023 Notes.

January 15, 2025 for the 2025 Notes.



January 15, 2028 for the 2028 Notes.

Interest Rate

2.375% per annum for the 2020 Notes.

3.000% per annum for the 2022 Notes.

3.625% per annum for the 2024 Notes.

3.875% per annum for the 2027 Notes.

2.200% per annum for the 2021 Notes.

2.650% per annum for the 2023 Notes.

3.215% per annum for the 2025 Notes.

3.500% per annum for the 2028 Notes.

Interest Payment Dates

Interest on each series of notes will be payable semi-annually in cash in arrears on January 15 and July 15 of each year, commencing on July 15, 2018. Interest accrues from the most recent date on which interest has been paid on the outstanding notes or the exchange notes or, if no interest has been paid, from January 19, 2017 (in the case of the 2020 Notes, the 2022 Notes, the 2024 Notes and 2027 Notes) and October 17, 2017 (in the case of the 2021 Notes, the 2023 Notes, the 2025 Notes and 2028 Notes).

Guarantees

Each series of notes initially will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed, jointly and severally, on an unsecured and unsubordinated basis by Broadcom Limited and Broadcom Cayman L.P. (collectively, the “Guarantors”).

The guarantees of Broadcom Cayman L.P. may be released under certain circumstances. See “Description of Notes—Guarantees.”

Ranking

The notes and the guarantees will be the Issuers’ and the Guarantors’ respective senior unsecured obligations and will:

rank equally in right of payment with all of the Issuers’ and the Guarantors’ respective existing and future senior unsecured unsubordinated indebtedness, including Broadcom Corporation’s obligations under the $139 million aggregate principal amount, consisting of $117 aggregate principal amount 2.700% Senior Notes due November 2018, $9 million aggregate principal amount 2.500% Senior Notes due August 2022, $7 million aggregate principal amount 3.500% Senior Notes due August 2024 and $6 million aggregate principal amount 4.500% Senior Notes due August 2034 that remained outstanding as of October 29, 2017 (collectively, the “Existing Broadcom Notes”);



rank senior in right of payment to the Issuers’ and the Guarantors’ respective existing and future subordinated indebtedness;

be effectively subordinated in right of payment to the Issuers’ and the Guarantors’ respective existing and future secured obligations, to the extent of the assets securing such obligations; and

be structurally subordinated in right of payment to any existing and future indebtedness or other liabilities, including trade payables, of the Issuers’ and the Guarantors’ respective subsidiaries (except Broadcom Cayman L.P., Cayman Finance and Broadcom Corporation).

Optional Redemption

The Issuers may, at their option, redeem or repurchase the notes of each series, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time prior to January 15, 2020 (in the case of the 2020 Notes), December 15, 2021 (in the case of the 2022 Notes), November 15, 2023 (in the case of the 2024 Notes), October 15, 2026 (in the case of the 2027 Notes), January 15, 2021 (in the case of the 2021 Notes), December 15, 2022 (in the case of the 2023 Notes), November 15, 2024 (in the case of the 2025 Notes) and October 15, 2027 (in the case of the 2028 Notes), at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the notes of such series to be redeemed, plus a “make-whole” premium, which is described under “Description of Notes—Optional Redemption,” plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding the redemption date.

On or after December 15, 2021 (in the case of the 2022 Notes), November 15, 2023 (in the case of the 2024 Notes), October 15, 2026 (in the case of the 2027 Notes), December 15, 2022 (in the case of the 2023 Notes), November 15, 2024 (in the case of the 2025 Notes) and October 15, 2027 (in the case of the 2028 Notes), the Issuers may redeem or repurchase all or any part of the notes of the applicable series, at any time or from time to time, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the aggregate principal amount of the notes of such series to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to, but excluding, the redemption date. See “Description of Notes—Optional Redemption.”

Additional Amounts; Redemption for Taxation Reasons

If payments made by the Issuers or any Guarantor are subject to any withholding or deduction of taxes by certain relevant tax jurisdictions (other than the United States or any of its political subdivisions), subject to certain exceptions, the Issuers and such Guarantor are required to pay the additional amounts necessary so that the net amount received by the holders of the notes after the withholding or deduction is not less than the amount that they would have received in the absence of the withholding or deduction. In the event that certain changes in the tax law of any relevant jurisdiction would impose



withholding taxes on payments on the notes, the Issuers may redeem a series of notes in whole, but not in part, at any time, at a redemption price of 100% of the principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, and additional amounts, if any, to the date of redemption. See “Description of Notes—Additional Amounts” and “Description of Notes—Redemption for Taxation Reasons.”

Change of Control Triggering Event

If we experience a Change of Control Triggering Event (as defined under “Description of Notes”), each holder of notes may require us to repurchase some or all of its notes at a purchase price equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, and additional amounts, if any, to, but excluding, the repurchase date. See “Description of Notes—Purchase of Notes upon a Change of Control Triggering Event.”

Certain Covenants

The indentures governing the notes contain covenants that limit, among other things, the ability of the Issuers, the Guarantors and their subsidiaries to:

incur certain secured debt;

enter into certain sale and lease-back transactions; and

consolidate, merge, sell or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of their assets.

These covenants are subject to a number of important qualifications and limitations. See “Description of Notes—Certain Covenants.”

Book-Entry

The exchange notes will be issued in book-entry form and will be represented by global certificates deposited with, or on behalf of, DTC and registered in the name of Cede & Co., DTC’s nominee. Beneficial interests in the exchange notes will be shown on, and transfers will be effected only through, records maintained by DTC or its nominee; and these interests may not be exchanged for certificated notes, except in limited circumstances. See “Description of Notes—Book-Entry, Delivery and Form” and “Description of Notes—Exchange of Global Notes for Certificated Notes.”

No Listing

The exchange notes will not be listed on any securities exchange or market.

Risk Factors

You should carefully consider all of the information included and incorporated by reference in this prospectus, including the risks under the heading “Risk Factors” in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 29, 2017 filed by each of Broadcom Limited and Broadcom Cayman L.P., and in this prospectus beginning on page 15, as well as in the other reports we file from time to time with the SEC that are incorporated by reference herein. In addition, you should review the information set forth under “Forward-Looking Statements” before deciding to tender your outstanding notes in the exchange offer.



SUMMARY CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL DATA

Set forth below are summary consolidated financial data of Broadcom Limited and Broadcom Cayman L.P., at the dates and for the periods indicated.

The following summary consolidated financial data relate to each of the five fiscal years in the period ended October 29, 2017. The financial data for each of the five fiscal years in the period ended October 29, 2017 were derived from the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements. For more information see the audited consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended October 29, 2017 in Broadcom Parent’s and Broadcom Cayman L.P.’s Annual Report on Form10-K incorporated by reference into this prospectus.

The following summary consolidated financial data should be read in conjunction with the respective consolidated financial statements and the related notes, “Risk Factors,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and other financial data in Broadcom Parent’s and Broadcom Cayman L.P.’s Annual Report on Form10-K incorporated by reference into this prospectus. The consolidated financial data may not be indicative of our future performance. We report financial results on a52-or53-week fiscal year. Our fiscal year ends on the Sunday closest to October 31 in a 52-week year and on the first Sunday in November in a 53-week year. We refer to our fiscal years by the calendar year in which they end. For example, the fiscal year October 29, 2017 is referred to as “fiscal year 2017.”

  Fiscal Year Ended 
  October 29,
2017		  October 30,
2016		  November 1,
2015		  November 2,
2014		  November 3,
2013		 
  (In millions, except per share amounts) 

Statement of Operations Data:(1)

     

Net revenue

 $17,636  $13,240  $6,824  $4,269  $2,520 

Cost of products sold:

     

Cost of products sold(2)

  6,593   5,295   2,750   1,911   1,251 

Purchase accounting effect on inventory

  4   1,185   30   210   9 

Amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets

  2,511   763   484   249   61 

Restructuring charges(3)

  19   57   7   22   1 
 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total cost of products sold

  9,127   7,300   3,271   2,392   1,322 
 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Gross margin

  8,509   5,940   3,553   1,877   1,198 

Research and development

  3,292   2,674   1,049   695   398 

Selling, general and administrative(2)

  787   806   486   407   222 

Amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets

  1,764   1,873   249   197   24 

Restructuring, impairment and disposal charges (3)

  161   996   137   140   2 

Litigation settlements(4)

  122   —     —     —     —   
 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

  6,126   6,349   1,921   1,439   646 
 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Operating income (loss)(5)

  2,383   (409)   1,632   438   552 

Interest expense(6)

  (454)   (585)   (191)   (110)   (2) 

Loss on extinguishment of debt(7)

  (166)   (123)   (10)   —     —   

Other income, net

  62   10   36   14   18 
 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes

  1,825   (1,107)   1,467   342   568 

Provision for income taxes(8)

  35   642   76   33   16 
 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Income (loss) from continuing operations

  1,790   (1,749)   1,391   309   552 

Loss from discontinued operations, net of income taxes (9)

  (6)   (112)   (27)   (46)   —   
 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net income (loss)

  1,784   (1,861)   1,364   263   552 

Net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interest (10)

  92   (122)   —     —     —   
 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net income (loss) attributable to ordinary shares

 $1,692  $(1,739)  $1,364  $263  $552 
 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 



  Fiscal Year Ended 
  October 29,
2017		  October 30,
2016		  November 1,
2015		  November 2,
2014		  November 3,
2013		 
  (In millions, except per share amounts) 

Income (loss) per ordinary share (diluted):

     

Income (loss) per share from continuing operations

 $4.03  $(4.57)  $4.95  $1.16  $2.19 

Loss per share from discontinued operations

  (0.01)   (0.29)   (0.10)   (0.17)   —   
 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Net income (loss) per share

 $4.02  $(4.86)  $4.85  $0.99  $2.19 
 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Cash dividend declared and paid per ordinary share

 $4.08  $1.94  $1.55  $1.13  $0.80 

   October 29,
2017		   October 30,
2016		   November 1,
2015		   November 2,
2014		   November 3,
2013		 
   (In millions) 

Balance Sheet Data:(1)

          

Cash and cash equivalents(11)

  $11,204   $3,097   $1,822   $1,604   $985 

Total assets

  $54,418   $49,966   $10,515   $10,376   $3,415 

Debt and capital lease obligations

  $17,569   $13,642   $3,872   $5,395   $2 

Total shareholders’ equity

  $23,186   $21,876   $4,714   $3,243   $2,886 

Other Financial Data:

          

Earnings to fixed charges ratio(12)

   4.2    —      7.6    3.7    94.4 

Shareholders’ equity, partners’ capital and the Limited Partners’ noncontrolling interest in Broadcom are the primary areas of difference between the consolidated financial statements of Broadcom and those of the Partnership. The following table sets forth certain Partnership data, as well as these primary differences.

  Fiscal Year Ended 
  October 29,
2017		  October 30,
2016		  November 1,
2015		  November 2,
2014		  November 3,
2013		 
  (In millions, except per share amounts) 

Partnership Data:

     

General Partner’s interest in net income (loss)

 $1,692  $(2,116)  $—    $—    $—   

Limited Partners’ interest in net income (loss)

 $92  $(122)  $—    $—    $—   

Net income attributable to ordinary shareholders

 $—    $377  $1,364  $263  $552 

Cash distribution paid per restricted exchangeable partnership unit

 $4.08  $1.50  $—    $—    $—   

Cash distribution paid to General Partner

 $1,756  $594  $—    $—    $—   

Cash dividends paid per ordinary share

 $—    $0.44  $1.55  $1.13  $0.80 

Total partners’ capital/shareholders’ equity

 $23,083  $21,876  $4,714  $3,243  $2,886 

(1)On February 1, 2016, we acquired Broadcom Corporation for total consideration of approximately $35.7 billion. On May 5, 2015, we acquired Emulex Corporation for total consideration of approximately $587 million. On August 12, 2014, we acquired PLX Technology, Inc. for total consideration of approximately $308 million. On May 6, 2014, we acquired LSI Corporation for total consideration of approximately $6.5 billion. On June 28, 2013, we acquired CyOptics, Inc. for total consideration of approximately $380 million. The results of operations of the acquired companies and estimated fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed were included in our financial statements from the respective acquisition dates.
(2)We incurred acquisition-related costs of $98 million, $139 million, $74 million and $74 million in fiscal years 2017, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively, of which $97 million, $138 million, $71 million and $67 million were presented as part of operating expenses, and the remainder was presented as part of cost of products sold.



(3)Fiscal years 2017, 2016, 2015 and 2014 restructuring charges primarily reflect actions taken to implement planned cost reduction and restructuring activities in connection with the acquisitions. We also incurred $56 million, $590 million and $61 millionin-process research and development and other asset impairment charges in fiscal years 2017, 2016 and 2015, respectively.
(4)Primarily represents litigation charges associated with certain legal settlement agreements.
(5)Includes share-based compensation expense of $920 million, $664 million, $232 million, $153 million and $77 million for fiscal years 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively. Share-based compensation expense includes the impact of equity awards assumed as part of the acquisitions, as well as the impact of special long-term compensation and retention equity awards.
(6)Interest expense in fiscal years 2017 and 2016 includes coupon and contractual interest, accretion of the original issue discount, amortization of debt issuance costs related to our outstanding debt and debt modification fees related to financing the Broadcom merger. Interest expense in fiscal years 2015 and 2014 includes interest on the 2.0% Convertible Senior Notes due 2021.
(7)Loss on extinguishment of debt was primarily due to the debt issuance costwrite-off that resulted from repayments of certain debt.
(8)Our provision for income taxes for fiscal year 2017 primarily relates to income from continuing operations, partially offset by $273 million of excess tax benefits from share-based awards recognized upon adoption of an accounting standards update. Our provision for income taxes for fiscal year 2016 included $93 million of expenses related to the undistributed earnings of foreign operations that were previously considered indefinitely reinvested, partially offset by income tax benefits from losses on continuing operations and the recognition of previously unrecognized tax benefits as a result of audit settlements. For fiscal years 2015, 2014, 2013 our provision for income taxes fluctuates mainly based on changes in jurisdictional mix of income.
(9)During fiscal years 2016, 2015 and 2014, we sold certain businesses related to the acquisitions of Broadcom Corporation, Emulex and LSI for a gain of $36 million, a loss of $14 million and a gain of $18 million, respectively.
(10)As a result of Broadcom’s controlling interest in the Partnership, we consolidate the financial results of the Partnership and present a noncontrolling interest for the portion of the Partnership it does not own in our consolidated financial statements. This represents the portion of net income (loss) attributable to the economic interest in the Partnership owned by the Limited Partners.
(11)The Partnership’s cash and cash equivalents at October 29, 2017 and October 30, 2016 were $11.0 billion and $3.0 billion, respectively. The balance differences result from the timing of capital contributions from Broadcom to the Partnership and distributions from the Partnership to Broadcom.
(12)Fixed charges consist of interest expense on all indebtedness plus amortization of debt issuance costs and accretion of debt discount, capitalized interest and an estimate of interest expense within rental expense. Earnings consist of income from continuing operations before income taxes plus fixed charges and amortization of capitalized interest less capitalized interest. Earnings for the fiscal year 2016 were inadequate to cover fixed charges as the coverage deficiency was $1,123 million.



RISK FACTORS

Before deciding to tender your outstanding notes in the exchange offer, you should consider the risks described below and the other information included or incorporated by reference in this prospectus, including the risks under the heading “Risk Factors” in the Annual Report on Form10-K for the fiscal year ended October 29, 2017 filed by each of Broadcom Limited and Broadcom Cayman L.P., as well as the other reports we file from time to time with the SEC that are incorporated by reference herein. The risks and uncertainties described below and in the incorporated documents are not the only risks and uncertainties that we face. Any of the following risks could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition or results of operations. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or those we currently view to be immaterial may also materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition or results of operations. In any such case, the market price of our exchange notes could decline and you could lose all or part of your investment. In addition, we may not be able to make payments of interest and principal on the exchange notes. The risks discussed below also include forward-looking statements, and our actual results may differ substantially from those discussed in these forward-looking statements. See “Forward-Looking Statements” in this prospectus. In addition to the risk factors incorporated by reference herein, you should consider the additional risk factors below.

Risks Relating to the Exchange Offer

If you do not exchange your outstanding notes in the exchange offer, the transfer restrictions currently applicable to your outstanding notes will remain in force and the market price of your outstanding notes could decline.

If you do not exchange your outstanding notes for exchange notes in the exchange offer, then you will continue to be subject to the transfer restrictions on the outstanding notes as set forth in the applicable offering memorandum distributed in connection with the private offerings of the outstanding notes. In general, the outstanding notes may not be offered or sold unless in transactions that are registered, or exempt from registration, under, or not subject to, the Securities Act (including pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act, as and when available) and applicable state securities laws. Except as required by the registration rights agreements, we do not intend to register resales of the outstanding notes under the Securities Act. You should refer to “Prospectus Summary—The Exchange Offer” and “The Exchange Offer” for information on how to tender your outstanding notes.

The tender of outstanding notes under the exchange offer will reduce the aggregate principal amount of the outstanding notes, which may have an adverse effect upon, and increase the volatility of, the market prices of the outstanding notes due to reduction in liquidity. In addition, if you do not exchange your outstanding notes in the exchange offer, you will no longer be entitled to exchange your outstanding notes for exchange notes registered under the Securities Act and you will no longer be entitled to have your outstanding notes registered for resale under the Securities Act.

Your ability to transfer the exchange notes may be limited by the absence of an active trading market, and there is no assurance that any active trading market will develop for the exchange notes.

We do not intend to apply for listing of the exchange notes on any securities exchange or market. The exchange notes are a new issue of securities for which there is no established public market. The initial purchasers in the private offerings of the outstanding notes may make a market in the exchange notes as permitted by applicable laws and regulations. However, the initial purchasers are not obligated to make a market in any of the exchange notes, and they may discontinue their market-making activities at any time without notice. In addition, such market-making activity may be limited during the pendency of the exchange offer. Therefore, an active market for any of the exchange notes may not develop or, if developed, it may not continue. In addition, subsequent to their initial issuance, the exchange notes may trade at a discount from their initial offering price, depending upon prevailing interest rates, the market for similar notes, our performance and other factors.

Risks Relating to the Notes

Our substantial indebtedness could adversely affect our financial health and our ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, limit our ability to react to changes in the economy or our industry, expose us to interest rate risk to the extent of our variable rate indebtedness and prevent us from fulfilling our obligations under our indebtedness.

As of October 29, 2017, our total consolidated indebtedness under our senior unsecured notes that were issued and sold in January 2017 and October 2017, collectively, was $17,689 million. See “Capitalization.”

Our substantial indebtedness could have important consequences including:

increasing our vulnerability to adverse general economic and industry conditions;

exposing us to interest rate risk to the extent of our variable rate indebtedness, and we do not typically hedge against changes in interest rates;

requiring us to dedicate a substantial portion of our cash flow from operations to payments on our indebtedness, thereby reducing the availability of our cash flow to fund working capital, capital expenditures, research and development efforts, execution of our business strategy, acquisitions and other general corporate purposes;

limiting our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes in the economy and the semiconductor industry;

placing us at a competitive disadvantage compared to our competitors with less indebtedness; and

making it more difficult to borrow additional funds in the future to fund growth, acquisitions, working capital, capital expenditures and other purposes.

See “Description of Other Indebtedness.”

We receive debt ratings from the major credit rating agencies in the United States. Factors that may impact our credit ratings include debt levels, planned asset purchases or sales and near-term and long-term production growth opportunities. Liquidity, asset quality, cost structure, reserve mix and commodity pricing levels could also be considered by the rating agencies. A ratings downgrade could adversely impact our ability to access debt markets in the future and increase the cost of current or future debt.

The instruments governing our indebtedness impose restrictions on our business.

The indentures governing the notes contain covenants imposing restrictions on our business. These restrictions may affect our ability to operate our business, to plan for, or react to, changes in market conditions or our capital needs and may limit our ability to take advantage of potential business opportunities as they arise. The restrictions placed on us includelimitations on our ability to incur certain secured debt, enter into certain sale and lease-back transactions and consolidate, merge, sell or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of our assets. You are not protected under the indentures governing the notes in the event of a highly leveraged transaction, reorganization, default under our existing indebtedness, restructuring, merger or similar transaction that may adversely affect you, except to the extent described under “Description of Notes—Certain Covenants—Limitation on Mergers and Other Transactions.”

Servicing our debt requires a significant amount of cash, and we may not have sufficient cash flow from our business to pay our substantial debt.

Our ability to make scheduled payments of the principal of, to pay interest on, and to refinance our debt, depends on our future performance, which is subject to economic, financial, competitive and other factors. Our business may not continue to generate cash flow from operations in the future sufficient to satisfy our obligations

under the notes and any future indebtedness we may incur and to make necessary capital expenditures. If we are unable to generate such cash flow, we may be required to adopt one or more alternatives, such as reducing or delaying investments or capital expenditures, selling assets, refinancing or obtaining additional equity capital on terms that may be onerous or highly dilutive. Our ability to refinance our outstanding indebtedness or future indebtedness will depend on the capital markets and our financial condition at such time. We may not be able to engage in any of these activities or engage in these activities on desirable terms when needed, which could result in a default on our indebtedness.

The guarantee of Broadcom Cayman L.P. may be automatically and unconditionally released under certain circumstances.

The guarantee by Broadcom Cayman L.P. will be automatically and unconditionally released at such time, if any, as (i) Broadcom Cayman L.P. is eligible to suspend its reporting obligation under Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act and (ii) the guarantee by Broadcom Parent would comply with the requirements of Rule3-10 of RegulationS-X promulgated by the SEC (or any successor provision) with respect to the Issuers to allow Broadcom Parent’s financial statements to meet the applicable SEC filing requirements without the guarantee of Broadcom Cayman L.P. At such time, Broadcom Cayman L.P. will also be automatically and unconditionally released substantially simultaneously from its obligations under the notes. The guarantee by Broadcom Cayman L.P. is being provided solely for the purpose of allowing the Issuers to satisfy their reporting obligations under SEC rules and will not be subject to the restrictive covenants in the indentures. You should not assign any value to such guarantee.

The guarantees may be released under other circumstances described under “Description of Notes—Guarantees.”

Following the release of a guarantee in accordance with the terms of the indentures, you will not have a claim as a creditor against any entity that is no longer a Guarantor.

Claims of holders of the notes will be structurally subordinated to claims of creditors of ournon-guarantor subsidiaries.

The notes will be guaranteed by the Guarantors and will not be guaranteed by the Issuers’ subsidiaries. Payments on the notes are required to be made only by the Issuers and the Guarantors. As a result, no payments are required to be made from assets of the Issuers’non-guarantor subsidiaries, unless those assets are transferred by dividend or otherwise to an Issuer or a Guarantor. In the event that anynon-guarantor subsidiary becomes insolvent, liquidates, reorganizes, dissolves or otherwise winds up, holders of its debt and its trade creditors generally will be entitled to payment on their claims from the assets of thatnon-guarantor subsidiary before any of those assets are made available to the Issuers. Consequently, your claims in respect of the notes will be structurally subordinated to all existing and future liabilities and obligations of the Issuers’non-guarantor subsidiaries. As of October 29, 2017, the Issuers’non-guarantor subsidiaries had no indebtedness outstanding (excluding intercompany indebtedness).

Fraudulent transfer laws, and similar laws in applicable foreign jurisdictions, may permit a court to void the notes and/or the guarantees, and, if that occurs, you may not receive any payments on the notes.

Fraudulent transfer and conveyance laws, and similar laws in applicable foreign jurisdictions, may apply to the issuance of the notes and the incurrence of the guarantees. Under bankruptcy laws and fraudulent transfer or conveyance laws, which may vary from state to state and jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and other similar laws in applicable foreign jurisdictions, the notes or the guarantees thereof could be voided as a fraudulent transfer or conveyance if the Issuers or any of the Guarantors, as applicable, (i) issued the notes and/or incurred the guarantees with the intent of hindering, delaying or defrauding creditors or (ii) received less than reasonably

equivalent value or fair consideration in return for either issuing the notes or incurring the guarantees and, in the case of (ii) only, one of the following is also true at the time thereof:

the Issuers or any of the Guarantors, as applicable, were insolvent or rendered insolvent by reason of the issuance of the notes or the incurrence of the guarantees;

the issuance of the notes or the incurrence of the guarantees left the Issuers or any of the Guarantors, as applicable, with an unreasonably small amount of capital or assets to carry on the business;

the Issuers or any of the Guarantors intended to, or believed that the Issuers or such Guarantor would, incur debts beyond the Issuer’s or the Guarantor’s ability to pay as they mature; or

the Issuers or any of the Guarantors were a defendant in an action for money damages, or had a judgment for money damages docketed against the Issuers or such Guarantor if, in either case, the judgment is unsatisfied after final judgment.

As a general matter, value is given for a transfer or an obligation if, in exchange for the transfer or obligation, property is transferred or a valid antecedent debt is secured or satisfied. A court would likely find that a Guarantor did not receive reasonably equivalent value or fair consideration for its guarantee to the extent the Guarantor did not obtain a reasonably equivalent benefit directly or indirectly from the issuance of the notes.

We cannot be certain as to the standards a court would use to determine whether or not the Issuers or the Guarantors were insolvent at the relevant time or, regardless of the standard that a court uses, whether the notes or the guarantees would be subordinated to the Issuers’ or any of our Guarantors’ other debt. In general, however, a court would deem an entity insolvent if:

the sum of its debts, including contingent and unliquidated liabilities, was greater than the fair saleable value of all of its assets;

the present fair saleable value of its assets was less than the amount that would be required to pay its probable liability on its existing debts, including contingent liabilities, as they become absolute and mature; or

it could not pay its debts as they became due.

If a court were to find that the issuance of the notes or the incurrence of a guarantee was a fraudulent transfer or conveyance, the court could void the payment obligations under the notes or that guarantee, could subordinate the notes or that guarantee to presently existing and future indebtedness of the Issuers or of the related Guarantor or could require the holders of the notes to repay any amounts received with respect to that guarantee. In the event of a finding that a fraudulent transfer or conveyance occurred, you may not receive any repayment on the notes. Further, the avoidance of the notes or the guarantees thereof could result in an event of default with respect to the Issuers’ and their subsidiaries’ other debt that could result in acceleration of that debt.

Finally, as a court of equity, a bankruptcy court may subordinate the claims in respect of the notes or the guarantees thereof to other claims against the Issuers or the Guarantors under the principle of equitable subordination if the court determines that (1) the holder of the notes or the guarantees thereof engaged in some type of inequitable conduct, (2) the inequitable conduct resulted in injury to our other creditors or conferred an unfair advantage upon the holders of the notes and (3) equitable subordination is not inconsistent with the provisions of the bankruptcy code.

Insolvency laws of jurisdictions outside the United States may not be as favorable to you as the U.S. bankruptcy laws and may preclude holders of the notes from recovering payments due under the notes.

Cayman Finance is incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands, and the Guarantors are incorporated or organized in Singapore and the Cayman Islands. The insolvency laws of these jurisdictions may not be as

favorable to your interests as creditors as the laws of the United States or other jurisdictions with which you may be familiar, including in the areas of rights of creditors, priority of governmental and other creditors, ability to obtain post-petition interest and the duration of the proceeding.

See “Limitations on Validity and Enforceability of the Guarantees” for a description of the insolvency laws in the Cayman Islands and Singapore, which could limit the enforceability of the guarantees.

In the event that any one or more of the Issuers, the Guarantors, any future guarantors, if any, or any other of the Issuers’ subsidiaries experienced financial difficulty, it is not possible to predict with certainty in which jurisdiction or jurisdictions insolvency or similar proceedings would be commenced, or the outcome of such proceedings. Guarantees provided by entities organized in jurisdictions not discussed in this prospectus are also subject to material limitations pursuant to their terms, by statute or otherwise. Any enforcement of the guarantees after bankruptcy or an insolvency event in such other jurisdictions will be subject to the insolvency laws of the relevant entity’s jurisdiction of organization or other jurisdictions. The insolvency and other laws of each of these jurisdictions may be materially different from, or in conflict with, each other, including in the areas of rights of secured and other creditors, the ability to void preferential transfer, priority of governmental and other creditors, ability to obtain post-petition interest and duration of the proceeding. The application of these laws, or any conflict among them, could call into question whether any particular jurisdiction’s laws should apply, adversely affect the ability of holders of the notes to enforce their rights under the guarantees in these jurisdictions and limit any amounts that such holders of the notes may receive.

You may be unable to enforce judgments obtained in the United States and foreign courts against Cayman Finance, the Guarantors or our or their respective directors and executive officers.

Certain of the directors and executive officers of Broadcom Corporation as well as Cayman Finance and the Guarantors are, and will continue to be,non-residents of the United States, and most of the assets of these companies are located outside of the United States. As a consequence, you may not be able to effect service of process in the United States on Cayman Finance and the Guarantors or thenon-United States resident directors and executive officers or to enforce judgments of U.S. courts in any civil liabilities proceedings under the U.S. federal securities laws. Moreover, any judgment obtained in the United States against thenon-resident directors and executive officers, Cayman Finance or such Guarantors, including judgments with respect to the payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest on the notes, may not be collectible in the United States. There is also uncertainty about the enforceability in the courts of certain jurisdictions, including judgments obtained in the United States against Cayman Finance or the Guarantors, whether or not predicated upon the federal securities laws of the United States. See “Service of Process and Enforcement of Civil Liabilities.”

Because each Guarantor’s liability under its guarantee may be reduced to zero or avoided or the guarantees of certain Guarantors may be released under certain circumstances, you may not receive any payments from some or all of the Guarantors.

It is anticipated that the notes will have the benefit of the guarantees of the Guarantors. However, the guarantees will be limited to the maximum amount that the Guarantors are permitted to guarantee under applicable law. As a result, a Guarantor’s liability under a guarantee could be reduced to zero depending on the limitations and other requirements of applicable law and/or the amount of other obligations of such entity. Further, under certain circumstances, a court under applicable fraudulent conveyance and transfer statutes or other applicable laws could void the obligations under a guarantee, or subordinate the guarantee to other obligations of the guarantor. See “—Fraudulent transfer laws, and similar laws in applicable foreign jurisdictions, may permit a court to void the notes and/or the guarantees and, if that occurs, you may not receive any payment on the Notes.” In addition, you will lose the benefit of a particular guarantee if it is released under certain circumstances described under “Description of Notes—Guarantees.”

As a result, an entity’s liability under its guarantee could be materially reduced or eliminated depending upon the amounts of its other obligations and upon applicable laws. In particular, in certain jurisdictions, a

guarantee granted by a company that is not in the company’s corporate interests or where the burden of that guarantee exceeds the benefit to the company may not be valid and enforceable. It is possible that a creditor of an entity or the insolvency administrator in the case of an insolvency of an entity may contest the validity and enforceability of the guarantee and that the applicable court may determine that the guarantee should be limited or voided. In the event that any guarantees are deemed invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, or to the extent that agreed limitations on the guarantee apply, the notes would be effectively subordinated to all liabilities, including trade payables, of the applicable Guarantor.

We may not be able to repurchase the Notes upon a Change of Control Triggering Event.

Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event (as defined under “Description of Notes”), the Issuers will be required to offer to repurchase all outstanding notes at 101% of their principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, and additional amounts, if any, to the date of repurchase. See “Description of Notes—Purchase of Notes upon a Change of Control Triggering Event.” The source of funds for any purchase of the notes will be the Issuers’ available cash or cash generated from the Issuers’ subsidiaries’ operations or other sources, including borrowings, sales of assets or sales of equity. The Issuers may not be able to repurchase the notes upon a Change of Control Triggering Event because they may not have sufficient financial resources to purchase all of the notes that are tendered upon a Change of Control Triggering Event. Further, the Issuers may be contractually restricted under the terms of other debt we may incur in the future from repurchasing all of the notes tendered by holders upon a Change of Control Triggering Event. Accordingly, the Issuers may not be able to satisfy their obligations to purchase the notes unless they are able to refinance or obtain waivers under such other indebtedness. Such failure to repurchase any tendered notes upon a change of control would cause a default under the indentures governing the notes. Any of our future debt agreements may contain similar provisions.

Holders of the notes may not be able to determine when a Change of Control giving rise to their right to have the notes repurchased has occurred following a sale of “substantially all” of the assets of Broadcom Parent.

The definition of Change of Control contained in each of the indentures governing the notes includes a phrase relating to the sale of “all or substantially all” of the assets of Broadcom Parent. There is no precise established definition of the phrase “substantially all” under applicable law. Accordingly, the ability of a holder of notes to require the Issuers to repurchase its notes as a result of a sale of less than all of the assets of Broadcom Parent to another person may be uncertain. In addition, some important corporate events, such as leveraged recapitalizations or the sale of Broadcom Parent to a public company that does not have a majority shareholder, may not, under the indentures governing the notes, constitute a Change of Control that would require the Issuers to repurchase the notes, even though those corporate events could increase the level of our indebtedness or otherwise adversely affect our capital structure, credit ratings or the value of the notes. See “Description of Notes—Purchase of Notes upon a Change of Control Triggering Event.”

There are currently no markets for the notes, and active trading markets may not develop for the notes.

There are currently no established trading markets for the notes. We do not intend to list the notes on any national securities exchange or for quotation on any automated dealer quotation systems.

The liquidity of any market for the notes will depend on a number of factors, including:

the number of holders of the notes;

our results of operations and financial performance;

the market for similar securities;

the interest of securities dealers in making a market in the notes; and

prevailing interest rates.

An active market for the notes may not develop and, if it develops, it may not continue.

The trading prices of the notes may be volatile and can be directly affected by many factors, including our credit rating.

To the extent trading markets for the notes develop, the trading prices of the notes could be subject to significant fluctuation in response to, among other factors, changes in our operating results, interest rates, the market for debt securities, general economic conditions and securities analysts’ recommendations, if any, regarding our securities.

Credit rating agencies continually revise their ratings for companies they follow, including us. Any ratings downgrade could adversely affect the trading prices of the notes, or the trading market for the notes, to the extent a trading market for the notes develops. The condition of the financial and credit markets and prevailing interest rates have fluctuated in the past and are likely to fluctuate in the future and any fluctuation may impact the trading prices of the notes.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

The information in this prospectus and the documents incorporated by reference herein should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in Broadcom Parent’s and Broadcom Cayman L.P.’s Annual Report on Form10-K for the fiscal year ended October 29, 2017 (the “Annual Report”), which is incorporated by reference herein. This prospectus and the documents incorporated by reference herein contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These statements are indicated by words or phrases such as “anticipate,” “expect,” “estimate,” “seek,” “plan,” “believe,” “could,” “intend,” “will,” and similar words or phrases. These forward-looking statements may include the proposed transaction involving Broadcom Limited and Qualcomm Incorporated (“Qualcomm”), and the expected benefits of the proposed transaction; projections of financial information; statements about historical results that may suggest trends for our business; statements of the plans, strategies, and objectives of management for future operations; statements of expectation or belief regarding future events (including any acquisitions we may make), technology developments, our products, product sales, expenses, liquidity, cash flow and growth rates, or enforceability of our intellectual property rights; and the effects of seasonality on our business. Such statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections of our or industry performance and macroeconomic conditions, based on management’s judgment, beliefs, current trends and market conditions, and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. We derive most of our forward-looking statements from our operating budgets and forecasts, which are based upon many detailed assumptions. While we believe that our assumptions are reasonable, we caution that it is very difficult to predict the impact of known factors, and it is impossible for us to anticipate all factors that could affect our actual results. Accordingly, we caution you not to place undue reliance on these statements.

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations are disclosed under “Risk Factors” herein and in Part I, Item 1A of the Annual Report. These factors include risks associated with our proposal to acquire Qualcomm, including: (i) the ultimate outcome of any possible transaction between Broadcom and Qualcomm; (ii) uncertainties as to whether Qualcomm will cooperate with us regarding the proposed transaction; (iii) the effects of the announcement of the proposed transaction on the ability of Broadcom and Qualcomm to retain customers, to retain and hire key personnel and to maintain favorable relationships with suppliers or customers; (iv) the timing of the proposed transaction; (v) the ability to obtain regulatory approvals and satisfy other closing conditions to the completion of the proposed transaction (including shareholder approval); and (vi) other risks related to the completion of the proposed transaction and actions related thereto; any loss of our significant customers and fluctuations in the timing and volume of significant customer demand; our dependence on contract manufacturing and outsourced supply chain; our dependency on a limited number of suppliers; any acquisitions we may make, such as delays, challenges and expenses associated with receiving governmental and regulatory approvals and satisfying other closing conditions, and with integrating acquired companies with our existing businesses and our ability to achieve the growth prospects and synergies expected by such acquisitions; our ability to accurately estimate customers’ demand and adjust our manufacturing and supply chain accordingly; our significant indebtedness, including the need to generate sufficient cash flows to service and repay such debt; dependence on a small number of markets and the rate of growth in these markets; dependence on and risks associated with distributors of our products; dependence on senior management; quarterly and annual fluctuations in our operating results; global economic conditions and concerns; our proposed redomiciliation of our ultimate parent company to the United States; our competitive performance and ability to continue achieving design wins with our customers, as well as the timing of any design wins; prolonged disruptions of our or our contract manufacturers’ manufacturing facilities or other significant operations; our ability to improve our manufacturing efficiency and quality; our dependence on outsourced service providers for certain key business services and their ability to execute to our requirements; our ability to maintain or improve gross margin; our effective tax rate, legislation that may impact our effective tax rate and our ability to maintain tax concessions in certain jurisdictions; our ability to protect our intellectual property and the unpredictability of any associated litigation expense; any expense or reputational damage associated with resolving customer product warranty and indemnification claims; cyclicality in the semiconductor industry or in our target markets;

our ability to sell to new types of customers and to keep pace with technological advances; market acceptance of the end products into which our products are designed; and other events and trends on a national, regional and global scale, including those of a political, economic, business, competitive and regulatory nature.

All of the forward-looking statements in this prospectus and the documents incorporated by reference herein are qualified in their entirety by reference to the factors listed above and those discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” herein and in Part I, Item 1A of the Annual Report. We caution you that the foregoing list of important factors may not contain all of the material factors that are important to you. In addition, in light of these risks and uncertainties, the matters referred to in the forward-looking statements contained in this prospectus and the documents incorporated by reference herein may not in fact occur. We undertake no intent or obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as otherwise required by law.

CAPITALIZATION

The following table sets forth the obligations and capitalization for each of Broadcom Parent and Broadcom Cayman L.P. as of October 29, 2017. This table should be read in conjunction with the information presented under the captions “Summary—Summary Historical Financial Data” in this prospectus, the “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” section in the Annual Report and Broadcom Parent’s and Broadcom Cayman L.P.’s consolidated financial statements and related notes included or incorporated by reference in this prospectus.

(in millions)

  As of
October 29, 2017		 

Indebtedness (including short-term debt and current portion of long-term obligations):

  

2.375% Senior Notes due 2020

  $2,750 

3.000% Senior Notes due 2022

   3,500 

3.625% Senior Notes due 2024

   2,500 

3.875% Senior Notes due 2027

   4,800 

2.200% Senior Notes due 2021

   750 

2.650 % Senior Notes due 2023

   1,000 

3.125% Senior Notes due 2025

   1,000 

3.500% Senior Notes due 2028

   1,250 

2.70% Broadcom Corporation Senior Notes due November 2018

   117 

2.50%—4.50% Broadcom Corporation Senior Notes due August 2022—August 2034

   22 
  

 

 

 

Total indebtedness

   17,689 
  

 

 

 

Total partners’ capital/shareholders’ equity

   23,083 
  

 

 

 

Total capitalization

  $40,772 
  

 

 

 

USE OF PROCEEDS

None of Broadcom Corporation, Cayman Finance or the Guarantors will receive any cash proceeds from the issuance of the exchange notes pursuant to the exchange offer. In consideration for issuing the exchange notes as contemplated in this prospectus, Broadcom Corporation and Cayman Finance will receive in exchange a like principal amount of outstanding notes, the terms of which are identical in all material respects to the exchange notes, except that the exchange notes will not contain terms with respect to transfer restrictions, registration rights or additional interest upon a failure to fulfill certain obligations under the registration rights agreements. The outstanding notes surrendered in exchange for the exchange notes will be retired and cancelled and cannot be reissued. Accordingly, the issuance of the exchange notes will not result in any change in our capitalization.

THE EXCHANGE OFFER

General

We are offering to exchange a like principal amount of exchange notes for any or all outstanding notes on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this prospectus and accompanying letter of transmittal. We refer to the offer as the “exchange offer.” You may tender some or all of your outstanding notes pursuant to the exchange offer, in permitted denominations.

As of the date of this prospectus, $2,750,000,000 2.375% Senior Notes due 2020, $3,500,000,000 3.000% Senior Notes due 2022, $2,500,000,000 3.625% Senior Notes due 2024, $4,800,000,000 3.875% Senior Notes due 2027, $750,000,000 2.200% Senior Notes due 2021, $1,000,000,000 2.650% Senior Notes due 2023, $1,000,000,000 3.125% Senior Notes due 2025 and $1,250,000,000 3.500% Senior Notes due 2028 are outstanding. This prospectus, together with the letter of transmittal, is first being sent to all registered holders of outstanding notes known to us on or about                 ,              . Our obligation to accept outstanding notes for exchange pursuant to the exchange offer is subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain conditions set forth under “—Conditions to the Exchange Offer” below. We anticipate that each of the conditions will be satisfied and that no waivers will be necessary.

Purpose and Effect of the Exchange Offer

We issued a total of $13.55 billion in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding notes on January 19, 2017 and a total of $4 billion in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding notes on October 17, 2017. In connection with the private offerings and sale of the outstanding notes, we and the Guarantors of the notes entered into registration rights agreements with the initial purchasers of the outstanding notes in which we agreed, under certain circumstances, to file a registration statement relating to an offer to exchange the outstanding notes for exchange notes. The following description of the registration rights agreements is only a brief summary of the agreements. It does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to all of the terms, conditions and provisions of the registration rights agreements. For further information, please refer to the registration rights agreements attached as exhibits to our Current Reports on Form8-K filed with the SEC on January 20, 2017 and October 17, 2017 and listed in the exhibit index in the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. Pursuant to the registration rights agreements, we agreed to use our commercially reasonable efforts to cause the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part to become effective and to cause the exchange offers,offer to be consummated on the earliest practicable date after the date such registration statement has become effective, but in no event later than July 13, 2018 (in the case of the 2020 Notes, the 2022 Notes, the 2024 Notes and 2027 Notes) and April 10, 2019 (in the case of the 2021 Notes, the 2023 Notes, the 2025 Notes and the 2028 Notes). The form and terms of the exchange notes will be identical in all material respects to the form and terms of the outstanding notes, except that the offer and sale of the exchange notes will be registered under the Securities Act, and the exchange notes will not contain terms with respect to transfer restrictions, registration rights and additional payments upon a failure to fulfill certain of our obligations under the registration rights agreements.

Pursuant to the registration rights agreements and under the circumstances set forth below, we and the guarantors of the notes agreed to use our commercially reasonable efforts to cause the SEC to declare effective a shelf registration statement with respect to the resale of the outstanding notes within the time periods specified in the registration rights agreements and to keep the shelf registration statement effective until the earliest to occur of the following: (1) when a registration statement with respect to the notes has become effective and such notes have been exchanged or disposed of pursuant to such registration statement, (2) when the notes cease to be outstanding, or (3) the date that is three years and six months from the respective closing date of the sale of the notes to the initial purchasers. These circumstances include:

if applicable interpretations of the staff of the SEC do not permit us to effect the exchange offer;

if, for any other reason, we do not consummate the exchange offer on or before July 13, 2018 or April 10, 2019, as applicable;

if an initial purchaser of the outstanding notes notifies us following consummation of the exchange offer that outstanding notes held by it are not eligible to be exchanged for exchange notes in the exchange offer; or

certain holders are prohibited by law or SEC policy from participating in the exchange offer or may not resell the exchange notes acquired by them in the exchange offer to the public without delivering a prospectus.

If we fail to comply with specified obligations under the registration rights agreements, we will be required to pay additional interest to holders of the outstanding notes. Such additional interest will generally be required to be paid if:

we fail to consummate the exchange offer on or before July 13, 2018 or April 10, 2019, as applicable;

we are required to file a shelf registration statement, and we fail to file the shelf registration statement with the SEC on or before the 90th day after the date on which the shelf registration statement is required to be filed; or

after the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part or the shelf registration statement, as the case may be, is effective, such registration statement thereafter ceases to be effective or usable (subject to certain exceptions).

If you wish to exchange your outstanding notes for exchange notes in the exchange offer, you will be required to make the following written representations:

you will acquire the exchange notes in the ordinary course of your business;

at the time of the commencement of the exchange offer, you have no arrangement or understanding with any person to participate in the distribution (within the meaning of the Securities Act) of the exchange notes in violation of the provisions of the Securities Act;

you are not our “affiliate” or an “affiliate” of any guarantor of the notes, as defined by Rule 405 of the Securities Act, or if you are an “affiliate,” you will comply with the registration and prospectus-delivery requirements of the Securities Act to the extent applicable; and

you are not engaged in, and do not intend to engage in, a distribution of exchange notes.

Each broker-dealer that receives exchange notes for its own account in exchange for outstanding notes, where the broker-dealer acquired the outstanding notes as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities, must acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus in connection with any resale of such exchange notes. See “Plan of Distribution.”

Resale of Exchange Notes

Based on interpretations by the SEC set forth inno-action letters issued to third parties, we believe that you may resell or otherwise transfer exchange notes issued in the exchange offer without complying with the registration and prospectus-delivery provisions of the Securities Act, if:

you are acquiring the exchange notes in the ordinary course of your business;

you do not have an arrangement or understanding with any person to participate in a distribution of the exchange notes;

you are not our “affiliate” or an “affiliate” of any guarantor of the notes as defined by Rule 405 of the Securities Act; and

you are not engaged in, and do not intend to engage in, a distribution of the exchange notes.

If you are our “affiliate,” or are engaging in, or intend to engage in, or have any arrangement or understanding with any person to participate in, a distribution of the exchange notes, or are not acquiring the exchange notes in the ordinary course of your business, then:

•you cannot rely on the position of the SEC set forth inMorgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated (available June 5, 1991) andExxon Capital Holdings Corporation (available May 13, 1988), as interpreted in the SEC’s letter toShearman & Sterling, dated July 2, 1993, or similarno-action letters; and

in the absence of an exception from the position stated immediately above, you must comply with the registration and prospectus-delivery requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of the exchange notes.

This prospectus may be used for an offer to resell, or for the resale or other transfer of exchange notes only as specifically set forth in this prospectus. With regard to broker-dealers, only broker-dealers that acquired the outstanding notes as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities may participate in the exchange offer. Each broker-dealer that receives exchange notes for its own account in exchange for outstanding notes where such outstanding notes were acquired by such broker-dealer as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities must acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus in connection with any resale of the exchange notes. Please read “Plan of Distribution” for more details regarding the transfer of exchange notes.

Terms of the Exchange Offer

On the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this prospectus and in the accompanying letters of transmittal, we will accept promptly afterfor exchange in the expiration date, all oldexchange offer any outstanding notes that are validly tendered and not validly withdrawn prior to the expiration date, unless we terminate the exchange offers.date. Outstanding notes may only be tendered in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess of $2,000. We will issue $2,000 principal amount or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof of exchange notes in exchange for a corresponding principal amount of outstanding notes surrendered in the newexchange offer. In exchange for each outstanding note surrendered in the exchange offer, we will issue exchange notes promptly after acceptance of the old notes. See “Conditions to the Exchange Offers.” For purposeswith a like principal amount.

The form and terms of the exchange offers,notes will be identical in all material respects to the form and terms of the outstanding notes, except that the offer and sale of the exchange notes will be registered under the Securities Act and the exchange notes will not contain terms with respect to transfer restrictions, registration rights and additional payments upon a failure to fulfill certain of our obligations under the registration rights agreements. The exchange notes will be issued under and entitled to the benefits of the indentures that authorized the issuance of the outstanding notes. For a description of the indentures, see “Description of Notes.”

The exchange offer is not conditioned upon any minimum aggregate principal amount of outstanding notes being tendered for exchange.

As of the date of this prospectus, there is outstanding a total of $17.55 billion aggregate principal amount of the outstanding notes. This prospectus and the letters of transmittal are being sent to all registered holders of outstanding notes. There will be no fixed record date for determining registered holders of outstanding notes entitled to participate in the exchange offer.

We intend to conduct the exchange offer in accordance with the provisions of the registration rights agreements, the applicable requirements of the Exchange Act, and the rules and regulations of the SEC. Outstanding notes that are not tendered for exchange in the exchange offer will remain outstanding and continue to accrue interest and be entitled to the rights and benefits that such holders have under the indentures relating to such holders’ series of outstanding notes and the registration rights agreements, except we will not have any further obligations to provide for the registration of the outstanding notes under the registration rights agreements.

We will be deemed to have accepted for exchange properly tendered oldoutstanding notes when we have given written notice of the acceptance to the exchange agent. The exchange agent will act as agent for the tendering holders for the purposes of receiving the exchange notes from us and delivering exchange notes to holders. Subject to the terms of the registration rights agreements, we expressly reserve the right to amend or terminate the exchange offer and to refuse to accept outstanding notes for exchange upon the occurrence of any of the conditions specified below under “—Conditions to the Exchange Offer.”

If you tender your outstanding notes in the exchange offer, you will not be required to pay brokerage commissions or fees or, subject to the instructions in the letter of transmittal, transfer taxes with respect to the exchange of outstanding notes. We will pay all charges and expenses, other than certain applicable taxes described below, in connection with the exchange offer. It is important that you read the information under the caption “—Fees and Expenses” below for more details regarding fees and expenses incurred in the exchange offer.

Expiration Date; Extensions, Amendments

As used in this prospectus, the term “expiration date” means 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on                 , 2018. However, if we, in our sole discretion, extend the period of time for which the exchange offer is open, the term “expiration date” will mean the latest time and whendate to which we give oral (confirmedshall have extended the expiration of such exchange offer.

To extend the period of time during which an exchange offer is open, we will notify the exchange agent of any extension by written notice, followed by notification by press release or other public announcement to the registered holders of the outstanding notes no later than 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the next business day after the previously scheduled expiration date. The notification will set forth, among other things, the approximate number of outstanding notes tendered to date.

We reserve the right, in writing)our sole discretion:

to delay accepting for exchange any outstanding notes (only in the case that we amend or extend the exchange offer);

to extend the exchange offer or to terminate the exchange offer if any of the conditions set forth below under “—Conditions to the Exchange Offer” have not been satisfied by giving written notice of such delay, extension or termination to the exchange agent; and

subject to the terms of the registration rights agreements, to amend the terms of the exchange offer in any manner. In the event of a material change in the exchange offer, including the waiver of a material condition, we will extend the offer period, if necessary, so that at least five business days remain in such offer period following notice of the material change.

Any delay in acceptance, extension, termination or amendment will be followed as promptly as practicable by written notice to the exchange agent.

The holder of each old note accepted for exchange will receive a new note in a principal amount equal to that of the surrendered old notes. The new notes will bear interest from the most recent date to which interest has been paid on the old notes. Accordingly, registered holders of newthe outstanding notes. If we amend the exchange offer in a manner that we determine to constitute a material change, we will promptly disclose the amendment in a manner reasonably calculated to inform the holders of applicable outstanding notes onof that amendment.

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Exchange Offer

the first interest payment date following the completionDespite any other term of the exchange offersoffer, we will receive interest accruing fromnot be required to accept for exchange, or to issue exchange notes in exchange for, any outstanding notes, and we may terminate or amend the most recentexchange offer as provided in this prospectus prior to the expiration date to which interestif in our reasonable judgment:

the exchange offer, or the making of any exchange by a holder violates any applicable law or interpretation of the SEC; or

any action or proceeding has been paid. Old notes acceptedinstituted or threatened in writing in any court or by or before any governmental agency with respect to the exchange offer that, in our judgment, would reasonably be expected to impair our ability to proceed with the exchange offer.

In addition, we will not be obligated to accept for exchange will ceasethe outstanding notes of any holder that has not made to accrue interest fromus:

the representations described under “—Purpose and afterEffect of the dateExchange Offer and “—Procedures for Tendering Outstanding Notes” and “Plan of completionDistribution;” and

any other representations as may be reasonably necessary under applicable SEC rules, regulations, or interpretations to make available to us an appropriate form for registration of the offer and sale of the exchange offers. Holdersnotes under the Securities Act.

We expressly reserve the right at any time or at various times to extend the period of old notes whose old notes are accepted for exchange will not receive any payment for accrued interest on the old notes otherwise payable on any interest payment date, the record date fortime during which occurs on or after completion of the exchange offers andoffer is open. Consequently, we may delay acceptance of any outstanding notes by giving oral or written notice of such extension to their holders. We will be deemed to have waived their rights to receive the accrued interest on the old notes.

In all cases, issuance of new notes for oldreturn any outstanding notes that are acceptedwe do not accept for exchange will only be made after timely receipt by the exchange agent of:
• certificates for such old notes or a timely book-entry confirmation of such old notes into the exchange agent’s account at DTC;
• a properly completed and duly executed letter of transmittal or an agent’s message in lieu thereof; and
• all other required documents.
If any tendered old notes are not accepted for any reason set forth in the terms and conditions of the exchange offers or if old notes are submitted for a greater principal amount than the holder desires to exchange, the unaccepted or non-exchanged old notes will be returned without expense to thetheir tendering holder or, in the case of old notes tendered by book-entry transfer into the exchange agent’s account at DTC pursuant to the book-entry procedures described below, the non-exchanged old notes will be credited to an account maintained with DTC, as promptly as practicable after the expiration or termination of the exchange offers.
Book-Entry Transfers
For purposesoffer.

We expressly reserve the right to amend or terminate the exchange offer and to reject for exchange any outstanding notes not previously accepted for exchange upon the occurrence of any of the conditions of the exchange offers, the exchange agentoffer specified above. We will request that an account be established with respect to the old notes at DTC within two (2) business days after the date of this prospectus, unless the exchange agent already has established an account with DTC suitable for the exchange offers. Any financial institution that is a participant in DTC may make book-entry delivery of old notes by causing DTC to transfer such old notes into the exchange agent’s account at DTC in accordance with DTC’s procedures for transfer. Although delivery of old notes may be effected through book-entry transfer at DTC, the letter of transmittalgive oral or facsimile thereof or an agent’s message in lieu thereof, with any required signature guarantees and any other required documents, must, in any case, be transmitted to and received by the exchange agent at the address set forth under “The Exchange Offers — Exchange Agent” prior to the expiration date or the guaranteed delivery procedures described below must be complied with.

The exchange agent and the book-entry transfer facility have confirmed that any financial institution that is a participant in the book-entry transfer facility may utilize the book-entry transfer facility Automated Tender Offer Program, (“ATOP”), procedures to tender old notes. Any participant in the book-entry transfer facility may make book-entry delivery of old notes by causing the book-entry transfer facility to transfer such old notes into the exchange agent’s account in accordance with the book-entry transfer facility’s ATOP procedures for transfer. However, the exchange for the old notes so tendered will only be made after a book-entry confirmation of the book-entry transfer of old notes into the exchange agent’s account, and timely receipt by the exchange agent of an agent’s message and any other documents required by the letter of transmittal. The term “agent’s message” means a message, transmitted by the book-entry transfer facility and received by the exchange agent and forming part of a book-entry confirmation, which states that the book-entry transfer facility has received an express acknowledgment from a participant tendering old notes that are the subject of such book-entry confirmation that such participant has received and agrees to be bound by the terms of the letter of transmittal, and that we may enforce such agreement against such participant.


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Guaranteed Delivery Procedures
If you desire to tender your old notes and your old notes are not immediately available, or time will not permit your old notes or other required documents to reach the exchange agent before the expiration date, a tender may be effected if:
• prior to the expiration date, the exchange agent receives from such Eligible Institution a notice of guaranteed delivery, substantially in the form we provide, by telegram, telex, facsimile transmission, mail or hand delivery, setting forth your name and address, the amount of old notes tendered, stating that the tender is being made thereby and guaranteeing that within three (3) Nasdaq Global Select Market (“NASDAQ”) trading days after the date of execution of the notice of guaranteed delivery, the certificates for all physically tendered old notes, in proper form for transfer, or a book-entry confirmation, as the case may be, together with a properly completed and duly executed appropriate letter of transmittal or facsimile thereof or agent’s message in lieu thereof, with any required signature guarantees and any other documents required by the letter of transmittal will be deposited by such Eligible Institution with the exchange agent; and
• the certificates for all physically tendered old notes, in proper form for transfer, or a book-entry confirmation, as the case may be, together with a properly completed and duly executed appropriate letter of transmittal or facsimile thereof or agent’s message in lieu thereof, with any required signature guarantees and all other documents required by the letter of transmittal, are received by the exchange agent within three (3) NASDAQ trading days after the date of execution of the notice of guaranteed delivery.
Withdrawal Rights
You may withdraw your tender of old notes at any time prior to the expiration date. To be effective, a written notice of withdrawal must be received by the exchange agent at the address set forth under “The Exchange Offers — Exchange Agent.” This notice must specify:
• the name of the person having tendered the old notes to be withdrawn;
• the old notes to be withdrawn, including the principal amount of such old notes; and
• where certificates for old notes have been transmitted, the name in which such old notes are registered, if different from that of the withdrawing holder.
If certificates for old notes have been deliveredany extension, amendment,non-acceptance or otherwise identifiedtermination to the exchange agent, then, prior to the releaseholders of the certificates, the withdrawing holder must also submit the serial numbers of the particular certificates to be withdrawn and a signed notice of withdrawal with signatures guaranteed by an Eligible Institution, unless such holder is an Eligible Institution. If oldoutstanding notes have been tendered pursuant to the procedure for book-entry transfer described above, any notice of withdrawal must specify the name and number of the account at DTC to be credited with the withdrawn old notes and otherwise comply with the procedures of DTC.
We will make a final and binding determination on all questions as to the validity, form and eligibility, including time of receipt, of such notices. Any old notes so withdrawn will be deemed not to have been validly tendered for exchange for purposes of the exchange offers. Any old notes tendered for exchange but not exchanged for any reason will be returned to the holder without cost to the holder, or, inpromptly as practicable. In the case of old notes tendered by book-entry transfer into the exchange agent’s account at DTC pursuant to the book-entry transfer procedures described above, the old notesany extension, such notice will be credited to an account maintained with DTC forissued no later than 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the old notes as soon as practicablenext business day after withdrawal, rejection of tender or termination of the exchange offers. Properly withdrawn old notes may be re-tendered by following one of the procedures described under “The Exchange Offers — Procedures for Tendering Old Notes” above at any time prior to thepreviously scheduled expiration date.


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Conditions to the Exchange Offers
Notwithstanding any other provision of the exchange offers, we are not required to accept for exchange, or to issue new notes in exchange for, any old notes and may terminate or amend the exchange offers, if any of the following events occur prior to the expiration of the exchange offers:
• the exchange offers violate any applicable law or applicable interpretation of the staff of the SEC;
• an action or proceeding shall have been instituted or threatened in any court or by any governmental agency that might materially impair our ability to proceed with the exchange offers;
• we shall not have received all governmental approvals that we deem necessary to consummate the exchange offers; or
• there has been proposed, adopted, or enacted any law, statute, rule or regulation that, in our reasonable judgment, would materially impair our ability to consummate the exchange offers.
TheThese conditions stated above are for our sole benefit, and we may be asserted by usassert them regardless of the circumstances givingthat may give rise to any conditionthem or may be waived by uswaive them in whole or in part at any timeor at various times prior to the expiration date in our reasonablesole discretion. Our failureIf we fail at any time to exercise any of the foregoing rights, this failure will not be deemedconstitute a waiver of any such right and eachright. Each such right will be deemed an ongoing right whichthat we may be assertedassert at any time.
time or at various times prior to the expiration date.

In addition, we will not accept for exchange any oldoutstanding notes tendered, and we will not issue newexchange notes in exchange for any such oldoutstanding notes, if at such time any stop order by the SEC is threatened or in effect with respect to the registration statement of which this prospectus constitutes a part or the indenture is no longer qualifiedqualification of the indentures under the Trust Indenture Act.

Exchange Agent
Wilmington Trust, National Association has been appointedAct of 1939, as amended.

Procedures for Tendering Outstanding Notes

To tender your outstanding notes in the exchange agent foroffer, you must comply with either of the exchange offers. All executed lettersfollowing:

complete, sign and date the letter of transmittal should be directedor a facsimile of the applicable letter of transmittal, have the signature(s) on such letter of transmittal guaranteed if required by the letter of transmittal and mail or deliver such letter of transmittal or facsimile thereof to the exchange agent at the address set forth below under “—Exchange Agent” prior to the expiration date; or

comply with DTC’s Automated Tender Offer Program procedures described below. Questions

In addition, you must comply with either of the following conditions:

the exchange agent must receive certificates for outstanding notes along with the applicable letter of transmittal prior to the expiration date;

the exchange agent must receive a timely confirmation of book-entry transfer of outstanding notes into the exchange agent’s account at DTC according to the procedures for book-entry transfer described below or a properly transmitted agent’s message prior to the expiration date; or

you must comply with the guaranteed delivery procedures described below.

Your tender, if not withdrawn prior to the expiration date, constitutes an agreement between us and requests for assistance, requests for additional copies ofyou upon the terms and subject to the conditions described in this prospectus and the applicable letter of transmittal.

The method of delivery of outstanding notes, letters of transmittal and all other required documents to the exchange agent is at your election and risk. We recommend that instead of delivery by mail, you use an overnight or hand delivery service, properly insured. In all cases, you should allow sufficient time to assure timely delivery to the exchange agent before the expiration date. You should not send letters of transmittal or certificates representing outstanding notes to us. You may request that your broker, dealer, commercial bank, trust company or nominee effect the above transactions for you.

If you are a beneficial owner whose outstanding notes are held in the name of a broker, dealer, commercial bank, trust company or other nominee and you wish to tender your outstanding notes, you should promptly instruct the registered holder to tender outstanding notes on your behalf. If you wish to tender the outstanding notes yourself, you must, prior to completing and executing the letter of transmittal and requests for noticesdelivering your outstanding notes, either:

make appropriate arrangements to register ownership of guaranteed delivery shouldthe outstanding notes in your name; or

obtain a properly completed bond power from the registered holder of outstanding notes.

The transfer of registered ownership may take considerable time and may not be directedable to be completed prior to the expiration date. We are not responsible for any delays in any such transfer.

Signatures on the letter of transmittal or a notice of withdrawal, as the case may be, must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange agent addressed as follows:

Wilmington Trust, National Association, Exchange Agent
By facsimile:
(For Eligible Institutions only):
(302) 636-4139
Confirmation:
Sam Hamed
(302) 636-6181
By Mail or Hand Delivery:
Wilmington Trust, National Association
c/o Wilmington Trust Company
Corporate Capital Markets
Rodney Square North
1100 North Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware19890-1626


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DELIVERY OF THE LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL TO AN ADDRESS OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH ABOVE OR TRANSMISSION OF SUCH LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL VIA FACSIMILE OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH ABOVE DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A VALID DELIVERY OF THE LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.
Fees and Expenses
The principal solicitation is being made by mail by Wilmington Trust, National Association, as exchange agent. We will pay the exchange agent customary fees for its services, reimburse the exchange agent for its reasonableout-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with the provision of these services and pay other registration expenses, including fees and expenses of the trusteeFinancial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc., a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States or another “eligible guarantor institution” within the meaning of Rule17A(d)-15 under the indenture relating toExchange Act, unless the outstanding notes filing fees, blue sky fees and printing and distribution expenses. We will not make any payment to brokers, dealers or others soliciting acceptancessurrendered for exchange are tendered:

by a registered holder of the exchange offers.
Additional solicitation may be made by telephone, facsimileoutstanding notes who has not completed the box entitled “Special Registration Instructions” or in person by our and our affiliates’ officers and regular employees and by persons so engaged by the exchange agent.
Accounting Treatment
We will record the new notes at the same carrying value as the old notes, as reflected in our accounting records“Special Delivery Instructions” on the dateletter of transmittal; or

for the exchange. Accordingly, we will not recognize any gain or loss for accounting purposes. The additional expensesaccount of an eligible guarantor institution.

If the exchange offers will not be amortized over the termletter of the new notes.

Transfer Taxes
You will not be obligated to pay any transfer taxes in connection with the tender of old notes in the exchange offers unless you instruct us to register new notes in the name of, or request that old notes not tendered or not accepted in the exchange offers be returned to,transmittal is signed by a person other than the registered tendering holder. In those cases, you will be responsible for the paymentholder of any potentially applicable transfer tax.
Consequences of Exchangingoutstanding notes listed on the outstanding notes, such outstanding notes must be endorsed or Failing to Exchange Old Notes
accompanied by a properly completed bond power. The information below concerning specific interpretations of and positions takenbond power must be signed by the staffregistered holder as the registered holder’s name appears on the outstanding notes and an eligible guarantor institution must guarantee the signature on the bond power.

If the letter of transmittal or any certificates representing outstanding notes or bond powers are signed by trustees, executors, administrators, guardians,attorneys-in-fact, officers of corporations, or others acting in a fiduciary or representative capacity, those persons should also so indicate when signing and, unless waived by us, they should also submit evidence satisfactory to us of their authority to so act.

Any financial institution that is a participant in DTC’s system may use DTC’s Automated Tender Offer Program to tender. Participants in the program may, instead of physically completing and signing the letter of transmittal and delivering it to the exchange agent, electronically transmit their acceptance of the SEC is not intendedexchange by

causing DTC to constitute legal advice, and holders should consult their own legal advisors with respecttransfer the outstanding notes to those matters.

If you do not exchange your old notes for new notes in the exchange offers, your oldagent in accordance with DTC’s Automated Tender Offer Program procedures for transfer. DTC will then send an agent’s message to the exchange agent. The term “agent’s message” means a message transmitted by DTC, received by the exchange agent and forming part of the book-entry confirmation, which states that:

DTC has received an express acknowledgment from a participant in its Automated Tender Offer Program that is tendering outstanding notes will continuethat are the subject of the book-entry confirmation;

the participant has received and agrees to be subject tobound by the provisionsterms of the indenture relating to the notes regarding transfer and exchangeletter of the old notes and the restrictions on transfer of the old notes described in the legend on your old notes. These transfer restrictions are required because the old notes were issued under an exemption from,transmittal, or in transactions not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws. In general, the old notes may not be offered or sold unless registered under the Securities Act, except under an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws. We do not plan to register the old notes under the Securities Act. Holders of old notes that do not exchange old notes for new notes in the exchange offers will no longer have any registration rights with respect to their old notes (except in the case of the initial purchasersan agent’s message relating to guaranteed delivery, that such participant has received and participating broker-dealers as provided in the registration rights agreement).
Under existing interpretations of the Securities Actagrees to be bound by the SEC’s staff contained in several no-action lettersnotice of guaranteed delivery; and

we may enforce that agreement against such participant.

DTC is referred to third parties, and subject toherein as a “book-entry transfer facility.”

Acceptance of Exchange Notes

In all cases, we will promptly issue exchange notes for outstanding notes that we have accepted for exchange under the immediately following sentence, we believe that the new notes would generally be freely transferable by holdersexchange offer only after the exchange offers without further registration underagent timely receives:

outstanding notes or a timely book-entry confirmation of such outstanding notes into the Securities Act, subjectexchange agent’s account at the book-entry transfer facility; and

a properly completed and duly executed letter of transmittal and all other required documents or a properly transmitted agent’s message.

By tendering outstanding notes pursuant to certain representations requiredthe exchange offer, you will represent to be made by each holderus that, among other things:

you are not our “affiliate” or an “affiliate” of newany guarantor of the notes as set forth below. However, any purchaserwithin the meaning of new notes who is one of our “affiliates” as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act or who intends to participateAct;

you are not engaged in, the exchange offers for the purpose of distributing the new notes:
• will not be able to rely on the interpretation of the SEC’s staff;
• will not be able to tender its old notes in the exchange offers; and


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• must comply with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any sale or transfer of the new notes unless such sale or transfer is made pursuant to an exemption from such requirements. See “Plan of Distribution.”
We do not intend to seek our own interpretation regardingengage in, and you do not have an arrangement or understanding with any person or entity to participate in a distribution of the exchange offers,notes; and there can be no assurance that

you are acquiring the SEC’s staff would make a similar determination with respect toexchange notes in the new notes as it has in other interpretations to other parties, although we have no reason to believe otherwise.ordinary course of your business.
Each

In addition, each broker-dealer that receives newis to receive exchange notes for its own account in exchange for oldoutstanding notes where the oldmust represent that such outstanding notes were acquired by itthat broker-dealer as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities and must acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus that meets the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of the newexchange notes. The letter of transmittal states that by so acknowledging and by delivering a prospectus, a broker-dealer will not be deemed to admit that it is an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act. This prospectus,See “Plan of Distribution.”

Our interpretation of the terms and conditions of the exchange offer, including the letters of transmittal and the instructions to the letters of transmittal, and our resolution of all questions as it mayto the validity, form, eligibility, including time of receipt, and acceptance of outstanding notes tendered for exchange will be amendedfinal and binding on all parties. We reserve the absolute right to reject any and all tenders of any particular outstanding notes not properly tendered or supplemented from time to time, maynot accept any particular outstanding notes if the acceptance might, in our or our counsel’s judgment, be used by a broker-dealerunlawful. We also reserve the absolute right to waive any defects or irregularities as to any particular outstanding notes prior to the expiration date.

Unless waived, any defects or irregularities in connection with resalestenders of newoutstanding notes received infor exchange must be cured before the expiration date. Neither we, the exchange agent, nor any other person will be under any duty to give notification of any defect or irregularity with respect to any tender of outstanding notes for

exchange, nor will we or any of them incur any liability for oldany failure to give notification. Any outstanding notes which were received by the broker-dealerexchange agent that are not properly tendered and as a result of market-makingto which the irregularities have not been cured or other trading activities. Underwaived will be returned by the registration rights agreement we have agreed that, for a period upexchange agent to the earliertendering holder, unless otherwise provided in the letter of (i) 120 days fromtransmittal, promptly after the expiration date.

Book-Entry Delivery Procedures

Promptly after the date of this prospectus, the exchange offer registration statementagent will establish an account with respect to the outstanding notes at DTC, as the book-entry transfer facility, for purposes of the exchange offer. Any financial institution that is declared effective and (ii)a participant in the date on whichbook-entry transfer facility’s system may make book-entry delivery of the outstanding notes by causing the book-entry transfer facility to transfer those outstanding notes into the exchange agent’s account at the facility in accordance with the facility’s procedures for such transfer. To be timely, book-entry delivery of outstanding notes requires receipt of a broker-dealer is no longer required to deliverconfirmation of a prospectus in connection with market-trading or other trading activities, we will make this prospectus available to any broker-dealer for use in connection with any such resale.

Registration Rights Agreement
We have filed the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part,book-entry transfer, which we refer to as a “book-entry confirmation,” prior to the “exchangeexpiration date. In addition, although delivery of outstanding notes may be effected through book-entry transfer into the exchange agent’s account at the book-entry transfer facility, the letter of transmittal or a manually signed facsimile thereof, together with any required signature guarantees and any other required documents, or an “agent’s message,” as defined below, in connection with a book-entry transfer, must, in any case, be delivered or transmitted to and received by the exchange agent at its address set forth on the cover page of the letter of transmittal prior to the expiration date to receive exchange notes for tendered outstanding notes, or the guaranteed delivery procedure described below must be complied with. Tender will not be deemed made until such documents are received by the exchange agent. Delivery of documents to the book-entry transfer facility does not constitute delivery to the exchange agent.

Holders of outstanding notes who are unable to deliver confirmation of the book-entry tender of their outstanding notes into the exchange agent’s account at the book-entry transfer facility or all other documents required by the letter of transmittal to the exchange agent on or prior to the expiration date must tender their outstanding notes according to the guaranteed delivery procedures described below.

Guaranteed Delivery Procedures

If you wish to tender your outstanding notes, but your outstanding notes are not immediately available or you cannot deliver your outstanding notes, the letter of transmittal or any other required documents to the exchange agent or comply with the procedures under DTC’s Automatic Tender Offer Program, prior to the expiration date, you may still tender if:

the tender is made through an eligible guarantor institution;

prior to the expiration date, the exchange agent receives from such eligible guarantor institution either a properly completed and duly executed notice of guaranteed delivery, by facsimile transmission, mail or hand delivery or a properly transmitted agent’s message and notice of guaranteed delivery, that (1) sets forth your name and address, the certificate number(s) of such outstanding notes and the principal amount of outstanding notes tendered; (2) states that the tender is being made thereby; and (3) guarantees that, within three Nasdaq Global Select Market trading days after the expiration date, the letter of transmittal, or facsimile thereof, together with the outstanding notes or a book-entry confirmation, and any other documents required by the letter of transmittal, will be deposited by the eligible guarantor institution with the exchange agent; and

the exchange agent receives the properly completed and executed letter of transmittal or facsimile thereof, as well as certificate(s) representing all tendered outstanding notes in proper form for transfer or a book-entry confirmation of transfer of the outstanding notes into the exchange agent’s account at DTC and all other documents required by the letter of transmittal, within three Nasdaq Global Select Market trading days after the expiration date.

Upon request, the exchange agent will send to you a notice of guaranteed delivery if you wish to tender your outstanding notes according to the guaranteed delivery procedures.

Withdrawal Rights

Except as otherwise provided in this prospectus, you may withdraw your tender of outstanding notes at any time prior to the expiration date. For a withdrawal to be effective:

the exchange agent must receive a written notice, which may be by telegram, telex, facsimile or letter, of withdrawal at its address set forth below under “—Exchange Agent;” or

you must comply with the appropriate procedures of DTC’s Automated Tender Offer Program system.

Any notice of withdrawal must:

specify the name of the person who tendered the outstanding notes to be withdrawn;

identify the outstanding notes to be withdrawn, including the certificate numbers and principal amount of the outstanding notes; and

where certificates for outstanding notes have been transmitted, specify the name in which such outstanding notes were registered, if different from that of the withdrawing holder.

If certificates for outstanding notes have been delivered or otherwise identified to the exchange agent, then, prior to the release of such certificates, you must also submit:

the certificate numbers of the particular certificates to be withdrawn; and

a signed notice of withdrawal with signatures guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution, unless you are an eligible guarantor institution.

If outstanding notes have been tendered pursuant to the procedures for book-entry transfer described above, any notice of withdrawal must specify the name and number of the account at the book-entry transfer facility to be credited with the withdrawn outstanding notes and otherwise comply with the procedures of the facility. We will determine, in our reasonable discretion, all questions as to the validity, form and eligibility, including time of receipt of notices of withdrawal, and our determination will be final and binding on all parties. Any outstanding notes so withdrawn will be deemed not to have been validly tendered for exchange for purposes of the exchange offer. Any outstanding notes that have been tendered for exchange but that are not exchanged for any reason will be returned to their holder, without cost to the holder, or, in the case of book-entry transfer, the outstanding notes will be credited to an account at the book-entry transfer facility, promptly after withdrawal, rejection of tender or termination of the exchange offer. Properly withdrawn outstanding notes may be retendered by following the procedures described under “—Procedures for Tendering Outstanding Notes” above at any time on or prior to the expiration date.

Exchange Agent

Wilmington Trust, National Association has been appointed as the exchange agent for the exchange offer. Wilmington Trust, National Association, also acts as trustee under the indentures governing the notes. You should direct all executed letters of transmittal and all questions and requests for assistance, requests for additional copies of this prospectus or of the letters of transmittal, and requests for notices of guaranteed delivery to the exchange agent addressed as follows:

By Hand, Overnight Delivery or Mail

(Registered or Certified Mail Recommended):

Wilmington Trust, National Association

Rodney Square North

1100 North Market Street

Wilmington, Delaware 19890-1626

Attention: Exchange

By Facsimile:

(302)636-4139

Attention: Exchange

Other Inquiries:

DTC2@WilmingtonTrust.com

If you deliver the letter of transmittal to an address other than the one set forth above or transmit instructions via facsimile other than the one set forth above, that delivery or those instructions will not be effective. Fax cover sheets should provide a call-back number and request a call back, upon receipt.

Fees and Expenses

The registration rights agreements provide that we will bear all expenses in connection with the performance of our obligations relating to the registration of the exchange notes and the conduct of the exchange offer. These expenses include registration and filing fees, accounting and legal fees and printing costs, among others. We will pay the exchange agent reasonable and customary fees for its services and reasonableout-of-pocket expenses. We will also reimburse brokerage houses and other custodians, nominees and fiduciaries for customary mailing and handling expenses incurred by them in forwarding this prospectus and related documents to their clients that are holders of outstanding notes and for handling or tendering for such clients.

We have not retained any dealer-manager in connection with the exchange offer and will not pay any fee or commission to any broker, dealer, nominee or other person for soliciting tenders of outstanding notes pursuant to the exchange offer.

Accounting Treatment

We will record the exchange notes in our accounting records at the same carrying value as the outstanding notes, which is the aggregate principal amount as reflected in our accounting records on the date of exchange. Accordingly, we will not recognize any gain or loss for accounting purposes upon the consummation of the exchange offer. We will capitalize the expenses of the exchange offer and amortize them over the life of the notes.

Transfer Taxes

We will pay all transfer taxes, if any, applicable to the exchanges of outstanding notes under the exchange offer. The tendering holder, however, will be required to pay any transfer taxes, whether imposed on the registered holder or any other person, if:

certificates representing outstanding notes for principal amounts not tendered or accepted for exchange are to be delivered to, or are to be issued in the name of, any person other than the registered holder of outstanding notes tendered;

tendered outstanding notes are registered in the name of any person other than the person signing the letter of transmittal; or

a transfer tax is imposed for any reason other than the exchange of outstanding notes under the exchange offer.

If satisfactory evidence of payment of such taxes is not submitted with the letter of transmittal, the amount of such transfer taxes will be billed to that tendering holder.

Consequences of Failure to Exchange

If you do not exchange your outstanding notes for exchange notes under the exchange offer, your outstanding notes will remain subject to the restrictions on transfer of such outstanding notes:

as set forth in the legend printed on the outstanding notes as a consequence of the issuance of the outstanding notes pursuant to the exemptions from, or in transactions not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws; and

as otherwise set forth in the offering memoranda distributed in connection with the private offerings of the outstanding notes.

In general, you may not offer or sell your outstanding notes except in transactions that are registered under the Securities Act or if the offer or sale is exempt from, or not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws. Except as required by the registration rights agreements, we do not intend to register resales of the outstanding notes under the Securities Act.

Other

Participating in the exchange offer is voluntary, and you should carefully consider whether to participate. You are urged to consult your financial and tax advisors in making your own decision on what action to take.

We may in the future seek to acquire untendered outstanding notes in open market or privately negotiated transactions, through subsequent exchange offers or otherwise. We have no present plans to acquire any outstanding notes that are not tendered in the exchange offer or to file a registration statement” to permit resales of any untendered outstanding notes.

DESCRIPTION OF OTHER INDEBTEDNESS

Broadcom Corporation Senior Notes

The following presents details of the Existing Broadcom Notes as of October 29, 2017:

Date Issued

  Maturity Date   Interest
Rate		  Amount
Outstanding		 
          (in millions) 

November 2011

   November 2018    2.70%  $117 

August 2012

   August 2022    2.50%   9 

July 2014

   August 2024    3.50%   7 

July 2014

   August 2034    4.50%   6 

Broadcom Corporation may redeem the Existing Broadcom Notes of each series at any time prior to their maturity, subject to a specified make-whole premium as defined in the indenture governing the Existing Broadcom Notes. In the event of a Change of Control Triggering Event (as defined in the indenture governing the Existing Broadcom Notes), each holder of Existing Broadcom Notes will have the right to require Broadcom Corporation to purchase for cash all or a portion of their Existing Broadcom Notes at a redemption price of 101% of the aggregate principal amount thereof plus accrued and are conductingunpaid interest. Default can be triggered by any missed interest or principal payment, breach of covenant, or in certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization.

The indenture governing the exchange offersExisting Broadcom Notes contains a number of customary restrictive covenants, including, but not limited to, restrictions on Broadcom Corporation’s ability to grant liens on assets; enter into sale and lease-back transactions; or merge, consolidate or sell assets. Failure to comply with these covenants, or any other event of default, could result in acceleration of the principal amount and accrued but unpaid interest on the Existing Broadcom Notes.

The outstanding Existing Broadcom Notes rank in right of payment (i) equal with all of Broadcom Corporation’s other existing and future senior unsecured indebtedness, (ii) senior to all of Broadcom Corporation’s existing and future subordinated indebtedness and (iii) effectively subordinated to all of Broadcom Corporation’s subsidiaries’ existing and future indebtedness and other obligations (including secured and unsecured obligations) and subordinated to Broadcom Corporation’s existing and future secured indebtedness and other obligations, to the extent of the assets securing such indebtedness and other obligations.

2016 Credit Agreement

As previously disclosed by Broadcom, on October 17, 2017, Broadcom Cayman Finance Limited and BC Luxembourg S.à r.l., an indirect subsidiary of Broadcom (together, the “Borrowers”), terminated the commitments and satisfied all outstanding obligations under that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of February 1, 2016 (as amended to date), by and among Broadcom, as holdings, the Borrowers, Broadcom Cayman L.P. and Broadcom Corporation, as guarantors, Bank of America, N.A., as the administrative agent and collateral agent, and the group of lenders party thereto (the “2016 Credit Agreement”). As a result and upon consummation of the foregoing, the guarantees of the 2021 Notes, the 2023 Notes, the 2025 Notes and the 2028 Notes by BC Luxembourg S.à r.l. were automatically released in accordance with our obligations under a registration rights agreement (the “registration rights agreement”), dated asthe terms of November 1, 2010, among Broadcom and the initial purchasers of the oldsuch notes. Holders of the new notes will not be entitled to any registration rights with respect to the new notes.

DESCRIPTION OF NOTES

The following description is a summary of the material provisionsterms of the registration rights agreement. It2020 notes, the 2022 notes, the 2024 notes and the 2027 notes, the 2021 notes, the 2023 notes, the 2025 notes and the 2028 notes (collectively, the “notes”) offered hereby and does not restate that agreement in its entirety. We urge youpurport to readbe complete. Although for convenience the registration rights agreement in its entirety because it,2020 notes, the 2022 notes, the 2024 notes, the 2027 notes, the 2021 notes, the 2023 notes, the 2025 notes and the 2028 notes are referred to as the “notes,” each will be issued as a separate series and will not together have any class voting rights. Accordingly, for purposes of this description, defines your registration rights as holdersDescription of Notes, unless the old notes. A copy of the registration rights agreement has been filed as an exhibitcontext otherwise requires, references to the Current Report onForm 8-K we filed with the SEC on November 1, 2010 and is available from us upon request. See “Where You Can Find More Information.”

If:
• we are not required to file the exchange offer registration statement or permitted to consummate the exchange offers because the exchange offers are not permitted by applicable law or SEC policy; or
• any holder of Transfer Restricted Securities (as defined below) notifies us prior to the tenth (10th) business day following the consummation of the exchange offers that such holder:
• is prohibited by law or SEC policy from participating in the exchange offers; or
• may not resell the exchange notes acquired by such holder in the exchange offers to the public without delivering a prospectus and the prospectus contained in the exchange offer registration statement is not appropriate or available for such resales; or
• is a broker-dealer and holds notes acquired directly from us or an affiliate of ours; or
• is an affiliate of ours and will not receive exchange notes in the exchange offers that may be freely transferred without restriction under federal securities laws,
then we will be required to use our commercially reasonable efforts to file with the SEC a shelf registration statement (the “shelf registration statement”) to cover resales of the notes by holders of the notes who satisfy certain conditions relating to the provision of information in connection with the shelf registration statement and to cause such shelf registration statement to be declared effective by the SEC on or prior to the 365th day


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after the day the obligation to file such shelf registration statement arises; provided that in no event will such registration statement provide for an underwritten offering of Transfer Restricted Securities without our prior consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld. We will be required to use our commercially reasonable efforts to keep such shelf registration statement continuously effective, supplemented and amended to the extent necessary to ensure that it is available for resales of the old notes by the holders of Transfer Restricted Securities and to ensure that it conforms with the requirements of the registration rights agreement, the Securities Act and the policies, rules and regulations of the SEC as announced from time to time, for a period of at least two (2) years following the effective date of such shelf registration statement (or a shorter period that will terminate when all the old notes covered by such shelf registration statement cease to be Transfer Restricted Securities). Holders of notes will be required to deliver certain information to be used in connection with the shelf registration statement and to provide comments on the shelf registration statement within the time periods set forth in the registration rights agreement in order to have their notes included in the shelf registration statement and to benefit from the provisions regarding Additional Interest set forth below. A holder who sells notes pursuant to the shelf registration statement will be required to be named as a selling securityholder in the prospectus and to deliver a copy of the prospectus to purchasers. By acquiring Transfer Restricted Securities, a holder will be deemed to have agreed to indemnify us against certain losses arising out of information furnished by such holder for inclusion in any shelf registration statement. If we are required to file a shelf registration statement, we will provide to each holder of the notes copies of the prospectus that is a part of the shelf registration statement and notify each such holder when the shelf registration statement becomes effective. Such holder will be subject to certain of the civil liability provisions under the Securities Act in connection with such sales, and will be bound by the provisions of the registration rights agreement which are applicable to such a holder (including certain indemnification obligations). Holders of notes will also be required to suspend their use of the prospectus included in the Shelf Registration Statement under certain circumstances upon receipt of written notice from us.
For the purposes of the registration rights agreement, “Transfer Restricted Securities” means each old note until the earliest to occur of:
• the date on which such old note has been offered to be exchanged for an exchange note in the exchange offers;
• the date on which such old note has been effectively registered under the Securities Act and disposed of in accordance with a shelf registration statement;
• the date on which such old note is actually transferred pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act;
• the date on which such old note ceases to be outstanding; and
• November 1, 2012.
The registration rights agreement provides that if:
• we fail to consummate the exchange offers within the applicable filing deadline; or
• the shelf registration statement or the exchange offer registration statement is declared effective but thereafter ceases to be effective or usable as described in the registration rights agreement without being succeeded within 10 business days by any additional registration statement or post-effective amendment that is filed and subsequently declared effective and cures the failure of such shelf registration statement or exchange offer registration statement to be effective or usable (each such event, a “Registration Default”),
then we are required to pay additional interest (“Additional Interest”) to each holder of Transfer Restricted Securities, with respect to the first90-day period immediately following the occurrence of the first Registration Default in an amount equal to one-quarter of one percent (0.25%) per year on the principal amount of Transfer Restricted Securities held by such holder.
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period until all Registration Defaults have been cured, up to a maximum amount of Additional Interest for all Registration Defaults of one-half of one percent (0.50%) per year.
All accrued Additional Interest will be paid by us on each interest payment date in the same manner as interest payments are made.
The sole remedy for all Registration Defaults is the payment of Additional Interest as set forth above. Following the cure of all Registration Defaults, the accrual of Additional Interest will cease.
All references in the indenture, in any context, to any interest or other amount payable on or with respect to the notes“notes” shall be deemed to include any special interest pursuantrefer to the registration rights agreement.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, under certain circumstances set forth in the registration rights agreement we will be permitted to suspend the useeach series of the shelf registration statement without paying Additional Interest for a period not to exceed 60 consecutive calendar days or an aggregate of 90 calendar days in any twelve-month period.
DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW NOTES
In this Description of the new notes “Issuer” refers only to Broadcom Corporation, and any successor obligor on the new notes,separately, and not to the 2020 notes, the 2022 notes, the 2024 notes, the 2027 notes, the 2021 notes, the 2023 notes, the 2025 notes and the 2028 notes on any combined basis.

As used in the following description, the terms “Issuers,” “we,” “our” and “us” refer collectively to Broadcom Cayman Finance Ltd., an exempted company incorporated with limited liability under the laws of the Cayman Islands (“Cayman Finance”), and Broadcom Corporation, a California corporation (“Broadcom Corporation”), and not any of its subsidiaries. You can findtheir subsidiaries, unless the definitionscontext requires otherwise.

On January 19, 2017, we issued $13.55 billion aggregate principal amount of certain terms used in this description under “Description of the New Notes — Certain Definitions.”

The Issuer will issue each series the new notes under an indenture dated as of November 1, 2010, as supplemented by a supplemental indenture dated as of November 1, 2010January 19, 2017 (“January indenture”) among us, the Guarantors (as so supplemented, the “indenture”), among the Issuerdefined below) and Wilmington Trust, National Association, (as successor by merger to Wilmington Trust FSB) as trustee (the “trustee”). ThisOn October 17, 2017, we issued $4 billion aggregate principal amount of notes under an indenture dated October 17, 2017 (“October indenture” and together with the January indenture, the “indentures”) among us, the Guarantors (as defined below) and the trustee. The following description of certain material terms of the notes offered hereby does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the sameapplicable indenture, including definitions therein of certain terms. Unless otherwise indicated, the terms of the instruments governing the notes are substantially identical.

The Issuers will issue in exchange for the outstanding notes up to $17.55 billion aggregate principal amount of notes that have been registered under the Securities Act, which we refer to as the old“exchange notes.” Except as otherwise indicated below, the following summary applies to both the exchange notes were issued.and the outstanding notes. The term “notes” means the exchange notes and the outstanding notes, unless otherwise indicated. The terms of the new notes will include those stated in the indentureindentures and those made part of the indentureindentures by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the “TIA”).

The form and terms of the exchange notes will be identical in all material respects to the form and terms of the outstanding notes, except that the offer and sale of the exchange notes will be registered under the Securities Act and the exchange notes will have a different CUSIP number and will not contain terms with respect to transfer restrictions, registration rights and additional payments upon a failure to fulfill certain of our obligations under the applicable Registration Rights Agreement (as defined below). The term “notes” shall also include

We urge you to read the new notesindentures (including definitions of terms used therein) and the old notes that remain outstanding following the exchange offers.

The following is a summary of the material provisions of the indenture. Because this is a summary, it may not contain all the information that is important to you. You should read the indenture in its entiretyapplicable Registration Rights Agreement because it,they, and not this summary, definesdescription, define your rights as holdersa beneficial holder of the notes. A copyYou may request copies of the indenture has been filed as an exhibit toindentures and the Current Report onForm 8-K we filed with the SEC on November 1, 2010 and is availableapplicable Registration Rights Agreement from us upon request. Seeat our address set forth under “Where You Can Find More Information.”
Information” in this prospectus.

General

The registered holder of a note will be treated as the owner of it for all purposes. Only registered holders will have rightsnotes are our senior unsecured obligations issued under the indenture. Any notes that remain outstanding after the exchange offers, together with the exchange notes issued in connection with the exchange offers, will be treatedindentures. The trustee also acts as a single class of securitiesregistrar, paying agent and authenticating agent and performs administrative duties for us, such as sending out interest payments and certain notices under the indenture.

indentures.

We have issued:

The New Notes Versusan aggregate principal amount of $2.75 billion of the Old Notes2020 notes, which will mature on January 15, 2020;

an aggregate principal amount of $3.5 billion of the 2022 notes, which will mature on January 15, 2022;

an aggregate principal amount of $2.5 billion of the 2024 notes, which will mature on January 15, 2024;

an aggregate principal amount of $4.8 billion of the 2027 notes, which will mature on January 15, 2027;

an aggregate principal amount of $750 million of the 2021 notes, which will mature on January 15, 2021;

an aggregate principal amount of $1.0 billion of the 2023 notes, which will mature on January 15, 2023;

an aggregate principal amount of $1.0 billion of the 2025 notes, which will mature on January 15, 2025; and

an aggregate principal amount of $1.25 billion of the 2028 notes, which will mature on January 15, 2028.

The new notes are substantially identical to the old notes except that the transfer restrictions, registration rightsissued only in fully registered form without coupons, in minimum denominations of $2,000 with integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof, and special interest provisions relating to the old notes do not apply to the new notes.

Basic Termsmay be exchanged only in denominations of the Notes
$2,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

The notes are senior unsecured obligations of Broadcomthe Issuers and will rank equal in right of payment with all of ourthe Obligors’ (as defined below under “—Guarantees”) other existing and future senior unsecured indebtedness, including indebtedness incurred pursuant to the four (4) year $500Broadcom Corporation’s obligations under its 2.700% Senior Notes due 2018, of which $117 million revolving senior unsecured credit facility we entered into shortly following the issuanceare currently outstanding, its 2.500% Senior Notes due 2022, of the old notes. Aswhich $9 million are currently outstanding, its 3.500% Senior Notes due 2024, of June 30, 2011, we had $700,000,000 of indebtednesswhich $7 million are currently outstanding, and a zeroits 4.500% Senior Notes due 2034, of which $6 million are currently outstanding balance under our credit facility. As discussed below,(collectively, the indenture for the notes does not restrict us or our subsidiaries from incurring any additional indebtedness.“Existing Broadcom Notes”). The notes will rank senior in right of payment to all of ourthe Obligors’ existing and future subordinated indebtedness, and effectively subordinated in right of payment to ourthe Obligors’ existing and future secured obligations, to the extent of the assets securing such obligations.


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The notes will not be guaranteed by any of our subsidiaries and thus will rank effectively subordinated in right of payment to all existing or future indebtedness or other liabilities, including trade payables, of our subsidiaries. The notes are not subject to, and do not have the benefit of, any sinking fund.

The 20132020 notes bear interest at a fixed rate per year of 1.500%2.375%, starting on January 19, 2017 and ending on their maturity date. The 2022 notes bear interest at a fixed rate per year of 3.000%, starting on January 19, 2017 and ending on their maturity date. The 2024 notes bear interest at a fixed rate per year of 3.625%, starting on January 19, 2017 and ending on their maturity date. The 2027 notes bear interest at a fixed rate per year of 3.875%, starting on January 19, 2017 and ending on their maturity date. The 2021 notes bear interest at a fixed rate per year of 2.200%, starting on October 17, 2017 and ending on their maturity date. The 2023 notes bear interest at a fixed rate per year of 2.650%, starting on October 17, 2017 and ending on their maturity date. The 2025 notes bear interest at a fixed rate per year of 3.125%, starting on October 17, 2017 and ending on their maturity date. The 2028 notes bear interest at a fixed rate per year of 3.500%, starting on October 17, 2017 and ending on their maturity date. Interest on the notes is payable semiannually on May 1January 15 and November 1July 15 of each year.year, starting on July 15, 2018. All payments of interest on the 2013 notes will be made to the persons in whose names the 2013 notes are registered on the April 15thJanuary 1 or October 15th nextJuly 1 immediately preceding the applicable interest payment date.

The 2015 notes bear interest at a fixed rate per year of 2.375%, payable semiannually on May 1 and November 1 of each year. All payments of interest on the 2015 notes will be made to the persons in whose names the 2015 notes are registered on the April 15 or October 15 next preceding the applicable interest payment date.

Interest on the notes will beis calculated on the basis of a360-day year comprised of twelve30-day months. All dollar amounts resulting from this calculation will beare rounded to the nearest cent.

The notes will initially beare evidenced by one or more global notes deposited with a custodian for, and registered in the name of Cede & Co, as nominee of The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”). Except as described herein, beneficial interests in the global notes will beare shown on, and transfers thereof will beare effected only through, records

maintained by DTC and its direct and indirect participants. We do not intend to list the notes on any national securities exchange or include the notes in any automated quotation systems.

system.

Payments of principal of and interest on the notes issued in book-entry form will beare made as described below under “Description of the New Notes — “—Book-Entry Delivery and Form — Form—Depositary Procedures.” Payments of principal of and interest on the notes issued in definitive form, if any, will beare made as described below under “Description of the New Notes — “—Book-Entry Delivery and Form — Form—Payment and Paying Agents.”

Interest payable on any interest payment date or the maturity date shall beis the amount of interest accrued from, and including, the next preceding interest payment date in respect of which interest has been paid or duly provided for (or from and including the issue date, if no interest has been paid or duly provided for with respect to the notes) to, but excluding, such interest payment date or maturity date, as the case may be. If an interest payment date or the maturity date falls on a day that is not a Business Day (as defined below), the related payment of principal or interest will be made on the next succeeding Business Day as if made on the date the payment was due. No interest will accrue on such payment for the period from and after such interest payment date or the maturity date, as the case may be, to the date of such payment on the next succeeding Business Day.

The new notes will bear interest from the most recent date to which interest has been paid on the old notes. If your old notes are tendered and accepted for exchange, you will receive interest on the new notes and not the old notes. Any old notes not tendered or not accepted for exchange will remain outstanding and continue to accrue interest according to their terms.

We may, without notice to or consent of the holders or beneficial owners of the notes, issue additional notes of the same series having the same ranking, interest rate, maturityand/or other terms as thea series of notes offered hereby.hereby (except for the issue price, the date of issuance, the date interest begins to accrue and, in certain circumstances, the first interest payment date). Any such additional notes issued couldwould be considered part of the same series of notes under the indentureindentures as the applicable series of notes offered hereby.

hereby and may (but are not required to) bear the same CUSIP number as the applicable series of notes offered hereby; provided that if the additional notes are not fungible with the applicable series of notes for United States federal income tax purposes, the additional notes will have a separate CUSIP number. Unless the context otherwise requires, references to “notes” for all purposes under the indentures and this description include any additional notes that may be issued.

The indenture doesindentures do not contain any provisions that would limit ourthe Obligors’ ability to incur additional unsecured indebtedness or require the maintenance of financial ratios or specified levels of net worth or liquidity.

Guarantees

Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any, on) and interest on the notes, and all other amounts due under the indentures, are fully and unconditionally guaranteed on an unsecured and unsubordinated senior basis by Broadcom Limited (“Broadcom Limited” or “Broadcom Parent”) and Broadcom Cayman L.P. (“Broadcom Cayman L.P.”, together with Broadcom Parent, the “Guarantors” and, together with the Issuers, the “Obligors”). The guarantees of each series of notes rank equally and ratably in right of payment with all other existing and future unsecured and unsubordinated senior indebtedness of the Guarantors, and senior in right of payment to all future subordinated indebtedness of the Guarantors. Because the guarantees of each series of notes are not secured, they are effectively subordinated to any existing and future secured indebtedness of the Guarantors to the extent of the value of the collateral securing that indebtedness. The guarantees are also effectively subordinated to any indebtedness and other liabilities (including trade payables) of the subsidiaries of the Guarantors that are not Obligors.

As of October 29, 2017, the Guarantors’ outstanding indebtedness would have consisted of their respective guarantees of the notes. The guarantee by Broadcom Parent will be automatically and unconditionally released (solely in the case of clauses (1) or (2) below), and the guarantee by Broadcom Cayman L.P. may, at the election of the Issuers, be, unconditionally released, upon:

(1)the sale, exchange, disposition or other transfer (including through merger, consolidation, liquidation or dissolution) of all or substantially all of the assets of such Guarantor if such sale, exchange, disposition or other transfer (including through merger, consolidation, liquidation or dissolution) is made in compliance with the indentures;

(2)the Issuers’ exercise of their legal defeasance option or covenant defeasance option as described under “—Defeasance and Discharge,” or if the Issuers’ obligations under the indentures are satisfied and discharged (including through redemption or repurchase of all of the notes or otherwise) in accordance with the terms of the indentures; or

(3)the release of its obligations under the notes, except a discharge or release by or as a result of payment in connection with the enforcement of remedies under such obligations.

The guarantee by Broadcom Cayman L.P. will be automatically and unconditionally released at such time as (i) Broadcom Cayman L.P. is eligible to suspend its reporting obligation under Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and (ii) the guarantee by Broadcom Parent would comply with the requirements of Rule3-10 of RegulationS-X promulgated by the SEC (or any successor provision) with respect to the Issuers to allow Broadcom Parent’s financial statements to meet the applicable SEC filing requirements without the guarantee of Broadcom Cayman L.P. At such time, Broadcom Cayman L.P. will also be automatically and unconditionally released substantially simultaneously from its obligations under the notes. The Issuers shall provide prompt written notice of the release of the Broadcom Cayman L.P. guarantee to the trustee and holders of the notes in accordance with the requirements described in “Covenants—Reports.” The guarantee by Broadcom Cayman L.P. is being provided solely for the purpose of allowing the Issuers to satisfy their reporting obligations under SEC rules and you should not assign any value to such guarantee.

Optional Redemption

General

The

Prior to January 15, 2020 (their maturity date), the 2020 notes may be redeemed or purchased, prior to December 15, 2021 (one month prior to their maturity), the 2022 notes may be redeemed or purchased, prior to November 15, 2023 (two months prior to their maturity), the 2024 notes may be redeemed or purchased, and prior to October 15, 2026 (three months prior to their maturity), the 2027 notes may be redeemed or purchased, in each case in whole or in part at our option at any time or from time to time prior to maturity at a redemption price equal to the greater of: (1) 100% of the aggregate principal amount of the notes to be redeemed;redeemed and (2) the sum of the present values of the Remaining Scheduled


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Payments of the notes to be redeemed, discounted to the date of redemption on a semi-annual basis (assuming a360-day year consisting of twelve30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 15 basis points, in the case of the 20132020 notes, and 20 basis points, in the case of the 20152022 notes, 25 basis points, in the case of the 2024 notes, and 25 basis points, in the case of the 2027 notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the redemption date. Prior to January 15, 2021 (their maturity date), the 2021 notes may be redeemed or purchased, prior to December 15, 2022 (one month prior to their maturity), the 2023 notes may be redeemed or purchased, prior to November 15, 2024 (two months prior to their maturity), the 2025 notes may be redeemed or purchased, and prior to October 15, 2027 (three months prior to their maturity), the 2028 notes may be redeemed or purchased, in each case in whole or in part at our option at any time or from time to time at a redemption price equal to the greater of: (1) 100% of the aggregate principal amount of the notes to be redeemed and (2) the sum of the present values of the Remaining Scheduled Payments of the notes to be redeemed, discounted to the date of redemption on a semi-annual basis (assuming a360-day year consisting of twelve30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 10 basis points, in the case of the 2021 notes, 15 basis points, in the case of the 2023 notes, 15 basis points, in the case of the 2025 notes, and 20 basis points, in the case of the 2028 notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the redemption date. The trustee has no duty to calculate or verify the calculation of the redemption price.

On or after December 15, 2021 (one month prior to their maturity) (the “2022 Par Call Date”), in the case of the 2022 notes, on or after November 15, 2023 (two months prior to their maturity) (the “2024 Par Call Date”), in the case of the 2024 notes and on or after October 15, 2026 (three months prior to their maturity) (the “2027 Par Call Date”), in the case of the 2027 notes, such notes may be redeemed or purchased in whole or in part at our option at any time or from time to time at a redemption price equal to 100% of the aggregate principal amount of the notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the redemption date. On or

after December 15, 2022 (one month prior to their maturity) (the “2023 Par Call Date”), in the case of the 2023 notes, on or after November 15, 2024 (two months prior to their maturity) (the “2025 Par Call Date”), in the case of the 2025 notes and on or after October 15, 2027 (three months prior to their maturity) (the “2028 Par Call Date” and together with the 2022 Par Call Date, the 2024 Par Call Date, the 2027 Par Date Call, the 2023 Par Call Date and the 2025 Par Call Date, the “Par Call Dates”), in the case of the 2028 notes, such notes may be redeemed or purchased in whole or in part at our option at any time or from time to time at a redemption price equal to 100% of the aggregate principal amount of the notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the redemption date.

“Business Day” means, unless otherwise provided for a particular series of notes, any day except a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday in The City of New York or a place of payment on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close.

“Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having an actual or interpolated maturity comparable to the remaining term of the notes to be redeemed, as if such notes matured on their applicable Par Call Date, that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of the notes to be redeemed.

“Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any redemption date (1) the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, after excluding the highest and lowest of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, (2) if the Independent Investment Banker obtains fewer than four Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all of these quotations or (3) if only one Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation is received, such quotation.

“Independent Investment Banker” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by us.

“Reference Treasury Dealer” means (a) each of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Barclays Capital Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC (in the case of the 2020 notes, the 2022 notes, the 2024 notes and the 2027 notes) and each of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC (in the case of the 2021 notes, the 2023 notes, the 2025 notes and the 2028 notes) (or their respective affiliates that are primary U.S. Government securities dealers) and their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of the foregoing ceases to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer, we will substitute another primary U.S. Government securities dealer and (b) two other nationally recognized investment banking firms selected by us that are primary U.S. Government securities dealers.

“Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by the Independent Investment Banker, of the bid and ask prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Independent Investment Banker by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such redemption date.

“Remaining Scheduled Payments” means, with respect to each note to be redeemed, the remaining scheduled payments of the principal thereof and interest thereon that would be due after the related redemption date for such redemption as if such note matured on its applicable Par Call Date; provided, however, that if such redemption date is not an interest payment date with respect to such note, the amount of the next succeeding scheduled interest payment thereon will be reduced by the amount of interest accrued thereon to such redemption date.

“Treasury Rate” means, for any redemption date, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity or interpolated maturity (on a day count basis), computed as of the third Business Day

immediately preceding that redemption date, of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for that Business Day.

Except as described above, the notes will not be redeemable by us prior to maturity.

Selection and Notice of Redemption

The notice of redemption will state the amount of notes to be redeemed and the redemption date. At our request given at least five Business Days prior to the date such notice is to be sent, the trustee shall give the notice of redemption in our name. In the event that we choose to redeem less than all of the notes, selection of the notes for redemption will be made by the trustee pro rata, by lot or by such method as the trustee shall deem fair and appropriate.

appropriate (and in the case of global notes, in accordance with the applicable procedures of DTC).

No notes of a principal amount of $2,000 or less shall be redeemed in part. Notice of redemption will be sent by first-class maildelivered at least 30 but not more than 60 days before the redemption date to each registered holder of notes to be redeemed. Unless we default in payment of the redemption price, on and after the redemption date, interest will cease to accrue on notes or portions thereof called for redemption. Additionally, at any time, we may repurchase notes in the open market and may hold such notes or surrender such notes to the trustee for cancellation.

No Mandatory

Redemption for Taxation Reasons

The Issuers may redeem the notes of a series, at their option, in whole, but not in part, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice to the holders of notes (which notice shall be irrevocable), together with accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to (but not including) the date fixed for redemption (a “Tax Redemption Date”) (subject to the right of holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date falling prior to the Tax Redemption Date) and all Additional Amounts (as defined under “—Additional Amounts”), if any, then due or Sinking Fund; Offers to Purchase; Open Market Purchases

Therethat will be no mandatorybecome due on the Tax Redemption Date as a result of the redemption or sinking fund payments forotherwise, if any, if the notes. However,Issuers determine in good faith that, as a result of:

(1)any change in, or amendment to, the law or treaties (or any regulations, protocols or rulings promulgated thereunder) of a Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction (as defined under “—Additional Amounts”) affecting taxation; or

(2)any change in, or amendment to, an official position or the introduction of an official position regarding the application, administration or interpretation of such laws, treaties, regulations, protocols or rulings (including a holding, judgment or order by a government agency or court of competent jurisdiction or a change in published administrative practice) (each of the foregoing in clauses (1) and (2), a “Change in Tax Law”),

any Payor (as defined under certain circumstances, we may“—Additional Amounts”), with respect to the notes or a guarantee of the notes is, or on the next date on which any amount would be payable in respect of the notes or a guarantee of the notes would be, required to offerpay any Additional Amounts, and such obligation cannot be avoided by taking reasonable measures available to purchasesuch Payor (including the appointment of a new paying agent or the payment through another Payor).

In the case of any Payor, the Change in Tax Law must have become effective on or after the date of the applicable offering memorandum (or, if the applicable Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction becomes a Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction after the date of the applicable offering memorandum, such a change that occurs after such later date). Notwithstanding the foregoing, no such notice of redemption will be given earlier than 90 days prior to the earliest date on which the Payor would be obligated to make such payment of Additional Amounts. Prior to the publication, mailing or delivery of any notice of redemption of the notes pursuant to the foregoing, the Issuers

will deliver to the trustee (a) an officer’s certificate stating that they are entitled to effect such redemption and setting forth a statement of facts showing that the conditions precedent to their right so to redeem have been satisfied and (b) an opinion of an independent tax counsel of recognized standing to the effect that the Payor would be obligated to pay Additional Amounts as a result of a Change in Tax Law. The trustee will accept such officer’s certificate and opinion as sufficient evidence of the satisfaction of the conditions precedent described above, in which event it will be conclusive and binding on the holders.

The foregoing provisions will applymutatis mutandisto the laws and official positions of any jurisdiction in which any successor to a Payor is organized or otherwise considered to be a resident for tax purposes or any political subdivision or taxing authority or agency thereof or therein. The foregoing provisions will survive any termination, defeasance or discharge of the indentures.

Additional Amounts

All payments made by or on behalf of any Issuer or any Guarantor or any successor in interest to any of the foregoing (each, a “Payor”) on or with respect to the notes or any guarantee of the notes will be made without withholding or deduction for, or on account of, any present or future tax, duty, levy, impost, assessment or other similar governmental charge (collectively, “Taxes”) unless such withholding or deduction is required by law or by the interpretation of administration of law. If any deduction or withholding for, or on account of, any Taxes imposed or levied by or on behalf of:

(1)any jurisdiction (other than the United States or any political subdivision or governmental authority thereof or therein having power to tax) from or through which payment on the notes or any guarantee of the notes is made by or on behalf of such Payor, or any political subdivision or governmental authority thereof or therein having the power to tax; or

(2)any jurisdiction (other than the United States or any political subdivision or governmental authority thereof or therein having the power to tax) in which a Payor that actually makes a payment on the notes or its guarantee of the notes is organized or otherwise considered to be a resident for tax purposes, or any political subdivision or governmental authority thereof or therein having the power to tax

(each of clauses (1) and (2), a “Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction”), will at any time be required from any payments made with respect to the notes or any guarantee of the notes, including payments of principal, redemption price, interest or premium, if any, the Payor will pay (together with such payments) such additional amounts (the “Additional Amounts”) as may be necessary in order that the net amounts received in respect of such payments by the holder after such withholding or deduction (including any such deduction or withholding from such Additional Amounts), will not be less than the amounts that would have been received in respect of such payments on the notes or the guarantees of the notes in the absence of such withholding or deduction;provided,however, that no such Additional Amounts will be payable for or on account of:

(1)any Taxes that would not have been so imposed or levied but for the existence of any present or former connection between the relevant holder (or between a fiduciary, settlor, beneficiary, partner, member or shareholder of, or possessor of power over, the relevant holder, if such holder is an estate, nominee, trust, partnership, limited liability company or corporation) and the Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction (including being a citizen or resident or national of, or carrying on a business or maintaining a permanent establishment in, or being physically present in, the Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction) but excluding, in each case, any connection arising solely from the acquisition, ownership or holding of such notes or any guarantee of the notes or the enforcement or receipt of any payment in respect thereof;

(2)

any Taxes that would not have been so imposed or levied if the holder of the note had complied with a reasonable request in writing of the Payor (such request being made at a time that would enable such holder acting reasonably to comply with that request) to make a declaration of nonresidence or any other claim or filing or satisfy any certification, identification, information or reporting requirement for

exemption from, or reduction in the rate of, withholding to which it is entitled (providedthat such declaration of nonresidence or other claim, filing or requirement is required by the applicable law, treaty, regulation or official administrative practice of the Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction as a precondition to exemption from, or reduction in the rate of deduction or withholding of, any such Taxes);

(3)any Taxes that are payable otherwise than by withholding from a payment on or with respect to the notes or any guarantee of the notes;

(4)any estate, inheritance, gift, sales, excise, transfer, personal property or similar Taxes;

(5)any Taxes imposed in connection with a note presented for payment (where presentation is required for payment) by or on behalf of a holder or beneficial owner who would have been able to avoid such Tax by presenting the relevant note to, or otherwise accepting payment from, another paying agent;

(6)any Taxes payable under Sections 1471 through 1474 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), as of the date of the applicable offering memorandum (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, any agreements entered into pursuant thereto, and any intergovernmental agreements implementing the foregoing (including any legislation or other official guidance relating to such intergovernmental agreements); or

(7)any combination of the above.

Such Additional Amounts will also not be payable (x) if the payment could have been made without such deduction or withholding if the beneficiary of the payment had presented the note for payment (where presentation is required) within 30 days after the relevant payment was due and first made available for payment to the holder (providedthat notice of such payment is given to the holders), except to the extent that the holder or beneficial owner or other such person would have been entitled to Additional Amounts on presenting the note for payment on any date during such30-day period or (y) where, had the beneficial owner of the note been the holder of the note, such beneficial owner would not have been entitled to payment of Additional Amounts by reason of any of clauses (1) to (7) inclusive above.

The Payors will (i) make or cause to be made any required withholding or deduction and (ii) remit or cause to be remitted the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant taxing authority of the Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction in accordance with applicable law. The Payors will use reasonable efforts to obtain certified copies of tax receipts evidencing the payment of any Taxes so deducted or withheld from each relevant taxing authority of each Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction imposing such Taxes and will provide such certified copies to the trustee and the holders. If, notwithstanding the efforts of such Payors to obtain such receipts, the same are not obtainable, such Payors will provide the trustee and the holders with other reasonable evidence.

If any Payor will be obligated to pay Additional Amounts under or with respect to any payment made on the notes, at least 30 days prior to the date of such payment, the Payor will deliver to the trustee an officer’s certificate stating the fact that Additional Amounts will be payable and the amount so payable and such other information necessary to enable the paying agent to pay Additional Amounts to holders on the relevant payment date (unless such obligation to pay Additional Amounts arises less than 45 days prior to the relevant payment date, in which case the Payor shall deliver such officer’s certificate and such other information as promptly as practicable after the date that is 30 days prior to the payment date). The trustee shall be entitled to rely solely on such officer’s certificate as conclusive proof that such payments are necessary.

Wherever in the indentures, the notes, any guarantee of the notes or this “Description of Notes” there is mention of, in any context:

(1)the payment of principal;

(2)redemption prices or purchase prices in connection with a redemption or purchase of notes;

(3)interest; or

(4)any other amount payable on or with respect to any of the notes or any guarantee of the notes;

such reference shall be deemed to include payment of Additional Amounts as described under this heading to the caption “Descriptionextent that, in such context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be payable in respect thereof.

The Payors will pay any present or future stamp, court or documentary Taxes, or any other excise, property or similar Taxes that arise in any Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction from the execution, delivery, issuance, initial resale, registration or enforcement of any notes, the indentures or any other document or instrument in relation thereto (other than a transfer of the New Notes — Certain Covenants — Repurchasenotes). The foregoing obligations will survive any termination, defeasance or discharge of Notes uponthe indentures and will applymutatis mutandisto any jurisdiction in which any successor to a ChangePayor is organized or otherwise considered to be a resident for tax purposes or any political subdivision or taxing authority or agency thereof or therein.

Agreed Tax Treatment

The portion, if any, of Control.” We may at any time and from time to time acquire notes by means other than a redemption or such a repurchase, whether by tender offer, purchasethe proceeds of each series of notes that was borrowed by Broadcom Corporation (the “U.S.Co-Issuer”) and the portion, if any, of the proceeds of each series of notes that was borrowed by Cayman Finance (the “CaymanCo-Issuer”), in each case, on the issue date of such series, have been posted at http://investors.broadcom.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=203541&p=irol-taxinformation. Each Issuer intends to repay the interest and principal associated with the proceeds it borrowed on each issue date. Although the notes (and the corresponding exchange notes) areco-issued by the U.S.Co-Issuer and the CaymanCo-Issuer and, therefore, each Issuer is liable for repayment of the notes (and the corresponding exchange notes) in their entirety, for tax purposes the Issuers agree, and by acquiring an interest in the open market, negotiated transactions or otherwise.

exchange notes each holder of a note agrees, to treat for U.S. federal income tax purposes the U.S.Co-Issuer and the CaymanCo-Issuer, respectively, as the issuer of only the portion, if any, of the debt borrowed by each such Issuer on the applicable issue date. Any future changes to such allocation shall promptly be posted in the same manner. In addition, we intend to treat each Issuer as paying the interest and principal due on the portion that it borrowed.

Purchase of Notes upon a Change of Control Triggering Event

Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event, unless we have exercised our option to redeem the notes as described above under “Description of the New Notes — “—Optional Redemption” or “—Redemption” for Taxation Reasons” each holder of notes will have the right to require that we purchase all or a portion (equal to $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof) of such holder’s notes pursuant to the offer described below (the “Change of Control Offer”), at a purchase price equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the date of purchase (the “Change of Control Payment”), subject to the rights of holders of notes on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date.

Within 30 days following the date upon which the Change of Control Triggering Event occurred or, at our option, prior to and conditioned on the occurrence of, any Change of Control, but after public announcement of the transaction that constitutes or may constitute the Change of Control, we must send, by first class mail,deliver a notice to each holder of notes, with a copy to the trustee, which notice shall govern the terms of the Change of Control Offer. Such notice shall state, among other things, the purchase date, which must be no earlier than 30 days nor later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed or,sent and, if the notice is mailedsent prior to the Change of Control, no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date on whichof the occurrence of the Change of Control, Triggering Event occurs, other than as may be required by law (the “Change of Control Payment Date”). The notice will, if mailedsent prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the Change of Control Offer is conditioned on the Change of Control Triggering Event occurring on or prior to the Change of Control Payment Date. Holders of definitive notes electing to have a note purchased pursuant to a Change of Control Offer will be required to surrender the note, with the form entitled “Option of Holder to Elect Purchase” on the reverse of the note completed, to the paying agent at the address specified in the notice, or holders notice. Holders

of global notes must transfer their notes to the paying agent by book-entry transfer pursuant to the applicable procedures of the paying agent and DTC (in the case of global notes), in each case prior to the close of business on the third (3rd) Business Day prior to the Change of Control Payment Date.


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Our ability to pay cash to the holders of notes following the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event may be limited by our then-existing financial resources. Therefore,resources and, accordingly, sufficient funds may not be available when necessary to make any required purchases.

We will not be required to make a Change of Control Offer if a third party makes such an offer in the manner and at the times required and otherwise in compliance with the requirements forapplicable to such an offer had it been made by us, and such third party purchases all notes properly tendered and not withdrawn under its offer. In addition, we willmay not repurchase any notes if there has occurred and is continuing on the Change of Control Payment Date an event of default under the indenture,indentures, other than a default in the payment of the Change of Control Payment upon a Change of Control Triggering Event.

We will comply with the requirements of RuleRule 14e-1 under the Securities Exchange Act, of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent such laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the purchase of notes pursuant to a Change of Control Triggering Offer. To the extent that the provisions of any such securities laws or regulations conflict with the “Change of Control Triggering Event” provisions of the indenture,indentures, we will comply with those securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached our obligations under the “Change of Control Triggering Event” provisions of the indentureindentures by virtue of any such conflict.

“Capital Stock” means:

(1)in the case of a corporation, corporate stock;

(2)in the case of an association or business entity, any and all shares, interests, participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated and whether or not voting) of corporate stock, including each class of common stock and preferred stock of such person; and

(3)in the case of a partnership or limited liability company, partnership or membership interests (whether general or limited).

“Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following:

(1)the direct or indirect sale, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or more series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the assets of Broadcom Parent and the assets of its subsidiaries taken as a whole to any “person” (as that term is defined in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) (other than to us or one of our subsidiaries);

(2)the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any “person” or “group” of related persons (as such terms are defined in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) other than (a) Broadcom Parent or one of its subsidiaries or (b) any employee benefit plan of such person or its subsidiaries, and any person or entity acting in its capacity as trustee, agent or other fiduciary or administrator of any such plan becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules13d-3 and13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of Broadcom Parent’s Voting Stock or other Voting Stock into which its Voting Stock is reclassified, consolidated, exchanged or changed, measured by voting power rather than number of shares;

(3)Broadcom Parent consolidates with or merges with or into, any person, or any person consolidates with or merges with or into, Broadcom Parent, in any such event pursuant to a transaction in which any of Broadcom Parent’s outstanding Voting Stock or of such other person is converted into or exchanged for cash, securities or other property; or

(4)the adoption of a plan relating to the liquidation or dissolution of Broadcom Parent in connection with a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, a transaction will not be deemed to involve a Change of Control if (A) Broadcom Parent becomes a direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of another person and (B) (i) the shares of Broadcom Parent’s Voting Stock outstanding immediately prior to such transaction constitute, or are converted into or exchanged for, a majority of the Voting Stock of such person immediately after giving effect to such transaction; or (ii) immediately following that transaction no person (other than a person satisfying the requirements of this sentence) is the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the Voting Stock of such person.

“Change of Control Triggering Event” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Rating Event.

“Investment Grade” means a rating of Baa3 or better by Moody’s (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of Moody’s) and a rating ofBBB- or better by S&P (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of S&P), or, if applicable, the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any Substitute Rating Agency.

“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., a subsidiary of Moody’s Corporation, and its successors.

“Rating Agency” means each of Moody’s and S&P, and if either of Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the notes or fails to make a rating of the notes publicly available for reasons outside of our control, a Substitute Rating Agency in lieu thereof.

“Rating Event” means the notes cease to be rated Investment Grade by both Rating Agencies on any day during the period (the “Trigger Period”) commencing on the earlier of (a) the first public notice of the occurrence of a Change of Control or (b) the public announcement by us of our intention to effect a Change of Control, and ending 60 days following consummation of such Change of Control (which period shall be extended so long as the rating of the notes is under publicly announced consideration for a possible rating downgrade by either of the Rating Agencies). If either Rating Agency is not providing a rating of the notes on any day during the Trigger Period for any reason, the rating of such Rating Agency shall be deemed to have ceased to be rated Investment Grade during the Trigger Period.

“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of S&P Global Inc., and its successors.

“Substitute Rating Agency” means a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” within the meaning of Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act, selected by us (as certified by a resolution of the board of directors of Broadcom Parent or a committee thereof) as a replacement agency for Moody’s or S&P, or both of them, as the case may be.

“Voting Stock” of any specified person as of any date means the Capital Stock of such person that is at the time entitled to vote generally in the election of the board of directors or managers of such person (or, if such person is a partnership, the board of directors or other governing body of the general partner of such person).

Certain Covenants

The indenture willindentures contain the following covenants:

Limitation on LiensSecured Debt

We

Broadcom Parent will not (nor will weBroadcom Parent permit any of ourits subsidiaries to) create, assume, or incurguarantee any Lien on any Principal Property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, or upon any income or profits therefrom, in order to secure any of our Indebtedness or that of any of our subsidiaries,Secured Debt without effectively providing thatmaking effective provision for securing the notes shall be equally and ratably with such Secured Debt. This covenant does not apply to debt secured until such time as such Indebtedness is no longer secured by such Lien, except:by:

(1)

purchase money mortgages created to secure payment for the acquisition, construction or improvement of any property including, but not limited to, any Indebtedness incurred by Broadcom Parent or a

1. Liens
subsidiary of Broadcom Parent prior to, at the time of, or within 18 months after the later of the acquisition, the completion of construction (including any improvements on an existing property) or the commencement of commercial operations of such property, which Indebtedness is incurred for the purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price of such property or construction or improvements on such property;

(2)mortgages, pledges, liens, security interests or encumbrances (collectively referred to as security interests) on property, or any conditional sales agreement or any title retention with respect to property, existing at the time of acquisition thereof, whether or not assumed by Broadcom Parent or a subsidiary of Broadcom Parent, provided such security interests are not created in anticipation or in furtherance of such acquisition;

(3)security interests on property of any person existing at the time such person becomes a subsidiary;

(4)security interests on property of a person existing at the time such person is merged or amalgamated into or otherwise consolidated with Broadcom Parent or a subsidiary of Broadcom Parent or at the time of a sale, lease, or other disposition of the properties of a person as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to Broadcom Parent or a subsidiary of Broadcom Parent; provided that no such security interests shall extend to any other Principal Property (as defined below) of Broadcom Parent or such subsidiary prior to such acquisition or to other Principal Property thereafter acquired other than additions or improvements to the acquired property;

(5)security interests on property of Broadcom Parent or property of a subsidiary of Broadcom Parent in favor of the United States of America or any state thereof, or in favor of any other country, or any department, agency, instrumentality or political subdivision thereof (including, without limitation, security interests to secure Indebtedness of the pollution control or industrial revenue type) in order to permit Broadcom Parent or any subsidiary of Broadcom Parent to perform a contract or to secure Indebtedness incurred for the purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price for the cost of constructing or improving the property subject to such security interests or which is required by law or regulation as a condition to the transaction of any business or the exercise of any privilege, franchise or license;

(6)security interests on any property or assets of Broadcom Parent or any subsidiary of Broadcom Parent to secure Indebtedness owing by it to Broadcom Parent or any subsidiary of Broadcom Parent;

(7)liens securing reimbursement obligations with respect to letters of credit related to trade payables and issued in the ordinary course of business, which liens encumber documents and other property relating to such letters of credit and the products and proceeds thereof;

(8)liens encumbering customary initial deposits and margin deposits and other liens in the ordinary course of business, in each case securing Indebtedness under any interest swap obligations and currency agreements and forward contracts, options, futures contracts, futures options or similar agreements or arrangements designed to protect Broadcom Parent or any of its subsidiaries from fluctuations in interest rates or currencies; or

(9)any extension, renewal or replacement, or successive extensions, renewals or replacements, in whole or in part, of any security interest referred to in the foregoing clauses (1)-(8); to the extent that the principal amount thereof is not increased other than by transaction costs and premiums, if any, and no additional Principal Property other than Principal Property permitted to be so secured under the foregoing clauses (1)-(8) is subject thereto.

For the purposes of determining compliance with this covenant, in the event that any Secured Debt meets the criteria of more than one of the issue datetypes of Secured Debt described above, Broadcom Parent, in its sole discretion, will classify such Secured Debt and only be required to include the amount and type of such Secured Debt in one of clauses (1) through (9) above or under the provision described in “—Exempted Indebtedness” below, and Secured Debt may be divided and classified at the time of incurrence into more than one of the notes;

2. Liens granted after the issue date, created in favortypes of the holders of the notes;
3. Liens securing our IndebtednessSecured Debt described above or the Indebtedness of any of our subsidiaries which are incurred to extend, renew or refinance Indebtedness which is secured by Liens permitted to be incurred under the indenture so long as such Liens are limited to all or part of the same Principal Property which secured the Liens extended, renewed or replaced and the amount of Indebtedness secured is not increased;
4. Liens createdprovision described in substitution of or as replacements for any Liens permitted by clauses (1), (2) and (3) above, provided that, based on a good faith determination by our board of directors or a committee thereof, our chief executive officer or our chief financial officer, the Principal Property encumbered under any such substitute or replacement Lien is substantially similar in nature to the Principal Property encumbered by the otherwise permitted Lien which is being replaced; and
5. Permitted Liens.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, we and our subsidiaries may, without securing the notes, create or incur Liens which would otherwise be subject to the restrictions set forth in the preceding paragraph, if after giving effect thereto, Aggregate Debt does not exceed the greater of (i) 15% of our Consolidated Net Tangible Assets calculated as of the date of the creation or incurrence of the Lien or (ii) $300.0 million.


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Limitation on Sale and Lease-Back Transactions
We

Broadcom Parent will not (nor will weBroadcom Parent permit any subsidiary of oursits subsidiaries to) enter into any sale and lease-back transaction for the sale and leasing back of any Principal Property (a “Sale and Lease-Back Transaction”), whether now owned or hereafter acquired, of oursBroadcom Parent or any subsidiary of ours,Broadcom Parent, unless:

 • (1)such transaction was entered into prior to the issue date of the notes;

 • (2)such transaction involves a lease for less than three (3) years;

 • (3)such transaction involves the sale and leasing back to usBroadcom Parent of any Principal Property by one of ourits subsidiaries, the sale and leasing back to one of Broadcom Parent’s subsidiaries by Broadcom Parent or the sale and leasing back to one of ourBroadcom Parent’s subsidiaries by another of ourBroadcom Parent’s subsidiaries;

 • (4)weBroadcom Parent or such subsidiary would be entitled to incur Indebtedness secured by a mortgageSecured Debt on the Principal Property to be leased in an amount at least equal to the Attributable Liens (as defined below) with respect to such sale and lease-back transaction without equally and ratably securing the notes pursuant to the covenant described under the caption “Description of the New Notes — Certain Covenants — “—Limitation on Liens”Secured Debt” above; or

 • (5)we applyBroadcom Parent applies an amount equal to the fair market value of the Principal Property sold, within 180 days of such sale and lease-back transaction, to any of (or a combination of) (a) the prepayment or retirement of the notes;notes, (b) the prepayment or retirement of Indebtedness for borrowed money of oursBroadcom Parent or a subsidiary of oursBroadcom Parent (other than Indebtedness that is contractually subordinated to the notes) or (c) the purchase, construction, development, expansion or improvement of Principal Property.

Exempted Indebtedness

Notwithstanding the limitations on Secured Debt and Sale and Lease-Back Transactions described above, Broadcom Parent and any one or more of its subsidiaries may, without securing the notes, issue, assume, or guarantee Secured Debt or enter into any Sale and Lease-Back Transaction that would otherwise be subject to the foregoing restrictions, provided that, after giving effect thereto, the aggregate amount of such Secured Debt then outstanding (not including Secured Debt permitted under the foregoing exceptions) and the Attributable Liens of Sale and Lease-Back Transactions, other than Sale and Lease-Back Transactions described in the preceding paragraph, at such time does not exceed the greater of (i) 15% of the Consolidated Net Tangible Assets of Broadcom Parent calculated as of the date of the creation or incurrence of such Secured Debt or Sale and Lease-Back Transactions and (ii) $1.25 billion (in the case of the January indenture) or $1.75 billion (in the case of the October indenture), in each case after giving effect to such incurrence and the application of the proceeds therefrom.

Limitation on Mergers and Other Transactions

We

None of the Obligors may not consolidate with or merge with or into, or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of ourits properties and assets to, any person, which we refer to as a “successor person,” unless:

 • (1)we aresuch Obligor is the surviving corporationperson or the successor person (if other than Broadcom)an Obligor) is a corporationperson organized and validly existing under the laws of any U.S. domestic jurisdiction, any current or former member state of the European Union, Canada or any province of Canada, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, the Republic of Singapore, Bermuda or the Cayman Islands and expressly assumes ourby supplemental indenture such Obligor’s obligations on the notes and under the indenture;indentures;

 • (2)immediately after giving effect to the transaction, no default or event of default shall have occurred and be continuing under the indenture;indentures; and

 • (3)we have delivered to the trustee prior to the consummation of the proposed transaction an officers’officer’s certificate to the foregoing effect and an opinion of counsel stating that the proposed transaction and the supplemental indenture comply with the indenture.indentures.
Notwithstanding the above, any of our subsidiaries may consolidate with, merge into or transfer all or part of its properties to Broadcom. Neither an officers’ certificate nor an opinion of counsel shall be required to be delivered in connection therewith.

SEC Reports

We will deliver to the trustee within 15 days after we file them with the SEC copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents, and other reports (or copies of such portions

The indentures provide that a copy of any of the foregoing as the SEC may by rules and regulations prescribe) which we aredocument or report that Broadcom Parent is required to file with the SECSecurities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.

Reports to Trustee
In addition, weAct will deliverbe delivered to the trustee within 12030 days after such document or report is required to be filed with the end of each fiscal year, an officer’s certificate stating that a review of our activities andSEC. Documents filed by us with the activities of our subsidiaries duringSEC via the preceding fiscal year has been made under the supervision of the signing officers with a viewEDGAR system (or any successor thereto) will be deemed to determining whether we have kept, observed, performed and fulfilled our obligations under the indenture and further stating, as to each such officer signing such certificate, that to the best ofhis/her knowledge we have kept, observed, performed


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and fulfilled each and every covenant contained in the indenture and are not in default in the performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions hereof (or, if a default or event of default shall have occurred, describing all such defaults or events of default of which he or she may have knowledge). We will, so long as any of the notes are outstanding, deliverbe delivered to the trustee an officer’s certificate specifying a default or event of default and what action we are taking or proposing to take with respect thereto promptly upon becoming aware of any such default or event of default.
Events of Default
Eachas of the following is an “event of default” with respect to the notes:
• default in the payment of any interest, including any Additional Interest, on the notes of such series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of that default for a period of 30 days (unless the entire amount of such payment is deposited by us with the trustee or with a paying agent prior to the expiration of such30-day period);
• default in the payment of principal of the notes of such series when due and payable;
• default in the performance or breach of any other covenant or warranty by us in the indenture (other than a covenant or warranty that has been included in the indenture solely for the benefit of a series of debt securities other than the notes of such series), which default continues uncured for a period of 60 days after we receive, by registered or certified mail, written notice from the trustee or we and the trustee receive, by registered or certified mail, written notice from the holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the outstanding notes of such series as provided in the indenture; and
• certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of Broadcom.
No event of default with respect to a series of notes (except as to certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization) necessarily constitutes an event of default with respect to any other series of debt securities. The occurrence of an event of default may constitute an event of default under any bank credit agreements that may be in existence from time to time. In addition, the occurrence of certain events of default or an acceleration under the indenture may constitute an event of default under certain of our other indebtedness that may be outstanding from time to time.
If an event of default with respect to a series of notes occurs and is continuing (other than an event of default regarding certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of Broadcom), then the trustee or the holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the outstanding notes of that series may declare the principal amount of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all notes of that series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to us (and to the trustee if given by the holders), and upon such declaration such principal amount and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, shall become immediately due and payable. In the case of an event of default resulting from certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization, the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all outstanding notes will become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the trustee or any holder of outstanding notes. At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to a series of notes has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the trustee as provided in the indenture, the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding notes of that series, by written notice to us and the trustee, may rescind and annul such a declaration and its consequences if all events of default with respect to the notes of that series, other than the non-payment of accelerated principal and interest, if any, with respect to the notes of that series, have been cured or waived as provided in the indenture.
The indenture providesdocuments are filed via EDGAR, it being understood that the trustee shall not be under no obligationresponsible for determining whether such filings have been made. Delivery of the information, documents and other reports described above to exercisethe trustee is for informational purposes only, and the trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Obligors’ compliance with any of the rightscovenants under the indentures (as to which the trustee is entitled to conclusively rely on an officer’s certificate).

So long as an Obligor complies with, or powers vested in itwould comply with, the requirements of Rule3-10 of RegulationS-X promulgated by the indenture atSEC (or any successor provision), the request or direction of any of the holders of notes, unless such holders have offered the trustee security or indemnity satisfactoryreports, information and other documents required to it against the costs, expensesbe filed and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction. Subjectfurnished to certain rights of the trustee, the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding notes of the affected series shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy


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available to the trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the trustee, with respect to the notes of such series.
No holder of any note of any series will have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to the indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any remedy under the indenture, unless:
• that holder has previously given written notice to the trustee of a continuing event of default with respect to the notes of that series; and
• the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding notes of that series shall have made written request to the trustee, and offered indemnity or security satisfactory to the trustee, to institute proceedings in respect of such event of default in its own name as trustee under the indenture, and the trustee has not received from the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding notes of that series a direction inconsistent with such written request and has failed to institute such proceeding within 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity or security.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the holder of any note shall have an absolute and unconditional right to receive payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on, such note on or after the due dates expressed in such note and to institute suit for the enforcement of payment.
The indenture requires us, within 120 days after the end of our fiscal year, to furnish to the trustee a statement as to compliance with the indenture. The indenture provides that the trustee may withhold notice to the holders of the notes of any default or event of default (except in payment on any notes of that series) with respectpursuant to notes of that series if it in good faith determines that withholding notice is inthis covenant may, at the interestoption of the holders ofIssuers, be filed by and be those notes.
Amendments and Waivers
Amendments without Consent of Holders
We and the trustee may amend or supplement the indenture or the notes of one or more series without the consent of any holder:
• to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency;
• to comply with the provisions of the indenture governing the consolidation, merger or sale of assets of the Issuer;
• to provide for uncertificated notes in addition to or in place of certificated notes;
• to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any holder;
• to provide for the issuance of and establish the form and terms and conditions of any series of notes as permitted by the indenture;
• to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor trustee with respect to the notes of one or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of the indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one trustee; or
• to comply with the requirements of the SEC in order to effect or maintain the qualification of the indenture under the Trust Indenture Act.
Amendments with Consent of Holders
We and the trustee may enter into a supplemental indenture with the written consent of the holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding notes of each series (with the old notes and the new notes of each series counted together as a single series) affected by such supplemental indenture (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the notes of such series) for the


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Obligor rather than Broadcom Parent.

purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of the indenture or of any supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the holders of each such series. Except as otherwise provided in the indenture, the holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding notes of any series (with the old notes and the new notes of each series counted together as a single series) by notice to the trustee (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the notes of such series) may waive compliance by us with any provision of the indenture or the notes with respect to such series.
It is not necessary for the consent of the noteholders to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture or waiver, but it is sufficient if their consent approves the substance thereof. After a supplemental indenture or waiver becomes effective, we will mail to the noteholders affected thereby a notice briefly describing the supplemental indenture or waiver. Any failure by us to mail or publish such notice, or any defect therein, will not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture or waiver.
Without the consent of each holder affected, an amendment or waiver shall not:
• reduce the principal amount of notes whose holders must consent to an amendment, supplement or waiver;
• reduce the rate of or extend the time for payment of interest (including default interest) on any notes;
• reduce the principal or change the Stated Maturity of any notes or reduce the amount of, or postpone the date fixed for, the payment of any sinking fund or analogous obligation;
• reduce the principal amount of securities that provide for an amount less than the stated principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof;
• waive a default or event of default in the payment of the principal of or interest, if any, on any notes;
• make the principal of or interest, if any, on any note payable in any currency other than that stated in the note;
• make any changes to the provisions in the indenture regarding the right of noteholders to receive principal and interest, the waiver of past defaults or the requirement of the consent of affected holders to an amendment or waiver as described in this section; or
• waive a redemption payment with respect to any notes, provided that such redemption is made at our option.
Defeasance and Discharge
We may discharge our obligations under the notes and the indenture by irrevocably depositing with the trustee as trust funds in trust an amount sufficient for the purpose of paying and discharging the entire indebtedness on such notes not theretofore delivered to the trustee for cancellation, for principal and interest to the date of such deposit or to the Stated Maturity or redemption date, as the case may be, subject to meeting certain other conditions.
We may also elect to:
• discharge most of our obligations in respect of the notes and the indenture, not including obligations related to the defeasance trust or to the replacement of notes or our obligations to the trustee (“legal defeasance”); or
• discharge our obligations under most of the covenants (“covenant defeasance”),
by irrevocably depositing with the trustee as trust funds moneyand/or or U.S. Government Obligations sufficient to pay and discharge each installment of principal of and interest, if any, on the notes and by meeting certain other conditions, including delivery to the trustee of either a ruling received from the Internal Revenue Service or an opinion of counsel to the effect that the holders will not recognize income, gain or loss


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for federal income tax purposes as a result of the defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amount and in the same manner and at the same times as would otherwise have been the case. In the case of legal defeasance, such an opinion could not be given absent a change of law after the date of the indenture.
The Trustee
The trustee’s current address is Wilmington Trust, National Association, 246 Goose Lane, Suite 105, Guilford, Connecticut 06437, Attn: Joseph P. O’Donnell.
The indenture provides that, except during the continuance of an event of default, the trustee will perform only those duties that are specifically set forth in the indenture and no others. If an event of default has occurred and is continuing, the trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by the Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a prudent man would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.
The indenture and provisions of the Trust Indenture Act incorporated by reference in the indenture contain limitations on the rights of the trustee, should it become our creditor, to obtain payment of claims in certain cases or to liquidate certain property received by it in respect of any such claim as security or otherwise. The trustee is permitted to engage in other transactions with us or any of our affiliates. If the trustee acquires any conflicting interest (as defined in the indenture or in the Trust Indenture Act), it must eliminate that conflict or resign.
Governing Law
The indenture and the notes, including any claim or controversy arising out of or relating to the indenture or the notes, shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York without regard to conflict of law principles that would result in the application of any law other than the law of the State of New York.
Additional Information
Anyone who receives this prospectus may obtain a copy of the indenture and the registration rights agreement without charge by writing to Broadcom Corporation, 5300 California Avenue, Irvine, California92617-3038, Attention: General Counsel.
Certain Definitions

As used in this section, the following terms have the meanings set forth below.

“Aggregate Debt” means, as of the date of determination, the aggregate principal amount of our and our subsidiaries’ Indebtedness incurred after the issue date and secured by Liens not permitted by the first sentence under “Description of the New Notes — Certain Covenants — Limitation on Liens.”

“Attributable Liens” means, in connection with a saleSale and lease-back transaction,Lease-Back Transaction, the lesser of:

 • (1)the fair market value of the assets subject to such transaction (as determined in good faith by ourthe board of directors of Broadcom Parent or a committee thereof); and

 • (2)the present value (discounted at a rate per annum equal to the average interest borne by all outstanding debt securities issued under the indentureindentures (which may include debt securities in addition to the notes) determined on a weighted average basis and compounded semi-annually) of the obligations of the lessee for rental payments during the term of the related lease.
“Business Day” means, unless otherwise provided for a particular series of notes, any day except a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday in the City of New York on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close.


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“Capital Lease” means any Indebtedness represented by a lease obligation of a person incurred with respect to real property or equipment acquired or leased by such person and used in its business that is required to be recorded as a capital lease in accordance with GAAP.
“Capital Stock” means:
• in the case of a corporation, corporate stock;
• in the case of an association or business entity, any and all shares, interests, participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated and whether or not voting) of corporate stock, including each class of common stock and preferred stock of such person; and
• in the case of a partnership or limited liability company, partnership or membership interests (whether general or limited).
“Change of Control” means the occurrence of any one or more of the following events:
• the direct or indirect sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of our assets and the assets of our subsidiaries taken as a whole to any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) other than to us or one of our subsidiaries;
• the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any “person” or “group” of related persons (as such terms are used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined inRules 13d-3 and13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of a majority of the total voting power of our Voting Stock; provided, however, that a person shall not be deemed beneficial owner of, or to own beneficially, (A) any securities tendered pursuant to a tender or exchange offer made by or on behalf of such person or any of such person’s affiliates until such tendered securities are accepted for purchase or exchange thereunder, or (B) any securities if such beneficial ownership (i) arises solely as a result of a revocable proxy delivered in response to a proxy or consent solicitation made pursuant to the applicable rules and regulations under the Exchange Act, and (ii) is not also then reportable on Schedule 13D (or any successor schedule) under the Exchange Act;
• we consolidate with, or merge with or into, any person, or any person consolidates with, or merges with or into, us, in any such event pursuant to a transaction in which any of our outstanding Voting Stock or of such other person is converted into or exchanged for cash, securities or other property, other than any such transaction where the shares of our Voting Stock outstanding immediately prior to such transaction constitute, or are converted into or exchanged for, a majority of the Voting Stock of the surviving person immediately after giving effect to such transaction;
• the first day on which the majority of the members of our board of directors cease to be Continuing Directors; or
• the adoption of a plan relating to our liquidation or dissolution.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, a transaction will not be deemed to involve a Change of Control if (i) we become a direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of a holding company and (ii) (A) the direct or indirect holders of the Voting Stock of such holding company immediately following that transaction are substantially the same as the holders of our Voting Stock immediately prior to that transaction or (B) immediately following that transaction no person (other than a holding company satisfying the requirements of this sentence) is the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of a majority of the Voting Stock of such holding company.
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“Continuing Director” means, as of any date of determination, any member of our board of directors who:
• was a member of our board of directors on the date of the indenture; or
• was nominated for election, elected or appointed to our board of directors with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of our board of directors at the time of such nomination, election or appointment.
“Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having an actual or interpolated maturity comparable to the remaining term of the notes to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of the notes to be redeemed.
“Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any redemption date (1) the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, after excluding the highest and lowest of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, (2) if the Independent Investment Banker obtains fewer than four Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all of these quotations, or (3) if only one Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation is received, such quotation.
“Consolidated Net Tangible Assets” of any specified person means, as of any date on which we effect a transaction requiring such Consolidated Net Tangible Assets to be measured hereunder, the aggregate amount of all assets of such person and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis (less applicable reserves) after deducting therefrom: (a) all current liabilities, except for current maturities of long-term debt and obligations under Capital Leases; and (b) intangible assets, to the extent included in said aggregate amount of assets, as of the end of our most recently completed accounting period for which financial statements are then available and computed in accordance with GAAP applied on a consistent basis.
“Discount Security” means any security that provides for an amount less than the stated principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to the provisions of the indenture.

“GAAP” means accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such other entity as have been approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession, which are in effect as of the original issue date.

“Indebtedness” of any specified person means, without duplication, any indebtedness in respect of borrowed money or that is evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments or letters of credit (or reimbursement agreements with respect thereto (other than obligations with respect to letters of credit securing obligations entered into in the ordinary course of business of such person to the extent such letters of credit are not drawn upon or, if and to the extent drawn upon, such drawing is reimbursed no later than the fifth (5th) business day following receipt by such person of a demand for reimbursement following payment on the letter of credit)) or representing the balance deferred and unpaid of the purchase price of any Property (including pursuant to Capital Leases), except any such balance that constitutes an accrued expense or trade payable, if and to the extent any of the foregoing indebtedness would appear as a liability upon a balance sheet of such person prepared in accordance with GAAP (but does not include contingent liabilities which appear only in a footnote to a balance sheet). In addition, the term “Indebtedness” includes all of the following items, whether or not any such items would appear as a liability on a balance sheet of the specified person in accordance with GAAP:

 • (1)all Indebtedness of others secured by a lien on any asset of the specified person (whether or not such Indebtedness is assumed by the specified person); and

 • (2)to the extent not otherwise included, any guarantee by the specified person of Indebtedness of any other person.


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Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term “Indebtedness” excludes any indebtedness of usBroadcom Parent or any of ourBroadcom Parent’s subsidiaries to usBroadcom Parent or a subsidiary.
“Independent Investment Banker” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by us.
“Investment Grade” means a rating of Baa3 or better by Moody’s (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of Moody’s) and a rating of BBB- or better by S&P (or its equivalent under any successor rating category of S&P), or, if applicable, the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any Substitute Ratings Agency.
“Lien” means any lien, security interest, charge or encumbrance of any kind (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any lease in the nature thereof, and any agreement to give any security interest).
“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., a subsidiary of Moody’s Corporation, and its successors.
“Permitted Liens” means, with respect to any person:
• Liens on the Principal Property of any person existing at the time such person becomes a subsidiary of ours, provided that such Liens are not incurred in anticipation of such person’s becoming a subsidiary of ours and do not extend to any Property other than those of such person;
• Liens on Principal Property existing at the time of acquisition thereof by us or a subsidiary of ours, or Liens thereon to secure the payment of all or any part of the purchase price thereof, or Liens on Principal Property to secure any Indebtedness incurred prior to, at the time of, or within 180 days after, the latest of the acquisition thereof or, in the case of property, the completion of construction, the completion of improvements or the commencement of substantial commercial operation of such property for the purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price thereof, such construction or the making of such improvements;
• Liens on the Principal Property of a person existing at the time such person is merged into or consolidated with us or a subsidiary of ours or otherwise acquired by us or a subsidiary of ours or at the time of sale, lease or other disposition of the properties of such person as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to us or a subsidiary of ours, provided that such Lien was not incurred in anticipation of such merger or consolidation or sale, lease or other disposition and does not extend to any Property other than that of the person merged into or consolidated with us or a subsidiary of ours or such Property sold, leased or disposed;
• Liens in favor of the United States of America or any state, territory or possession thereof (or the District of Columbia), or any department, agency, instrumentality or political subdivision of the United States of America or any state, territory or possession thereof (or the District of Columbia), to secure partial, progress, advance or other payments pursuant to any contract or statute or to secure any Indebtedness incurred for the purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price or the cost of constructing or improving Principal Property subject to such Liens;
• Liens in our favor or in favor of any of our subsidiaries; or
• Liens consisting of deposits of Principal Property to secure (or in lieu of) safety, appeal or customs bonds in proceedings to which we or any of our subsidiaries is a party in the ordinary course of its business.
Broadcom Parent.

“Principal Property” means the land, improvements, buildings, fixtures andand/or equipment (including any leasehold interest therein) constituting the principal corporate office and any manufacturing, assembly or test plant, distribution center, research facility, design facility, administrative facility, or sales and marketing facility (in each case, whether now owned or hereafter acquired) which is owned or leased by usBroadcom Parent or any of ourBroadcom Parent’s subsidiaries, unless such office, plant, center or facility has a value of less than $5.0 million or unless ourthe board of directors of Broadcom Parent or a committee thereof has determined in good faith that such office, plant, center or facility is not of material importance to the total business conducted by usBroadcom Parent and ourits subsidiaries taken as a whole.


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Notwithstanding the foregoing, the land, improvements, buildings, fixtures and/or equipment (including any leasehold interest therein) constituting (i) the principal corporate offices or primary campuses of Broadcom Parent (whether owned or leased by Broadcom Parent or a wholly-owned subsidiary of Broadcom Parent) and (ii) the office campus located in Irvine, California, in each case shall not constitute Principal Property.

“Property” means any property or asset, whether real, personal or mixed, or tangible or intangible, including shares of capital stock.

“Rating Agency”Secured Debt” means eachindebtedness for borrowed money that is secured by a security interest in any Principal Property.

Events of Moody’s and S&P, and if either of Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the notes or fails to make a ratingDefault

Each of the notes publicly available for reasons outsidefollowing is an “event of our control, a Substitute Rating Agency in lieu thereof.

“Rating Event” means the notes cease to be rated Investment Grade by both Rating Agencies on any day during the period (the “Trigger Period”) commencing on the earlier of (a) the first public notice of the occurrence of a Change of Control; or (b) the public announcement by us of our intention to effect a Change of Control, and ending 60 days following consummation of such Change of Control (which period shall be extended so long as the rating of the notes is under publicly announced consideration for a possible rating downgrade by either of the Rating Agencies). If either Rating Agency is not providing a rating of the notes on any day during the Trigger Period for any reason, the rating of such Rating Agency shall be deemed to have ceased to be rated Investment Grade during the Trigger Period.
“Reference Treasury Dealer” means (a) each of Banc of America Securities LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (or their respective affiliates that are primary U.S. Government securities dealers) and their respective successors; provided, however, that if either of the foregoing ceases to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer, we will substitute another primary U.S. Government securities dealer; and (b) two (2) other nationally recognized investment banking firm selected by us that are primary U.S. Government securities dealers.
“Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means,default” with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by the Independent Investment Banker,notes:

(1)default in the payment of any interest, including any additional interest, on the notes of such series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of that default for a period of 30 days (unless the entire amount of such payment is deposited by us with the trustee or with a paying agent prior to the expiration of such30-day period);

(2)default in the payment of principal of the notes of such series when due and payable;

(3)

default in the performance or breach of any other covenant or warranty by us in the indentures (other than a covenant or warranty that has been included in the indentures solely for the benefit of a series of debt securities other than the notes of such series), which default continues uncured for a period of

60 days after we receive written notice from the trustee or we and the trustee receive written notice from the holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the outstanding notes of such series as provided in the indentures;

(4)certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Issuers or Broadcom Parent; and

(5)except as permitted under the indentures, any Guarantee (other than the guarantee by Broadcom Cayman L.P.) shall for any reason cease to exist or shall not be in full force and effect and enforceable in accordance with its terms.

No event of the bid and ask prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Independent Investment Banker by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third (3rd) Business Day preceding such redemption date.

“Remaining Scheduled Payments” means,default with respect to each notea series of notes (except as to be redeemed, the remaining scheduled paymentscertain events of the principal thereof and interest thereon that would be due after the related redemption date for such redemption; provided, however, that if such redemption date is notbankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization) necessarily constitutes an interest payment date with respect to such note, the amountevent of the next succeeding scheduled interest payment thereon will be reduced by the amount of interest accrued thereon to such redemption date.
“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and its successors.
“Stated Maturity” when useddefault with respect to any security, meansother series of debt securities. The occurrence of an event of default may constitute an event of default under any bank credit agreements that may be in existence from time to time. In addition, the date specifiedoccurrence of certain events of default or acceleration under the indentures may constitute an event of default under certain of the Obligors’ other indebtedness that may be outstanding from time to time.

If an event of default with respect to a series of notes occurs and is continuing (other than an event of default regarding certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Issuers or Broadcom Parent), then the trustee or the holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the outstanding notes of that series may declare the principal amount of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all notes of that series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to us (and to the trustee if given by the holders), and upon such security asdeclaration such principal amount and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, shall become immediately due and payable. In the fixed date on whichcase of an event of default resulting from certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Issuers or Broadcom Parent, the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all outstanding notes will become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the trustee or any holder of outstanding notes. At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to a series of notes has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the trustee as provided in the indentures, the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding notes of that series, by written notice to us and the trustee, may rescind and annul such a declaration and its consequences if all events of default with respect to the notes of that series, other than thenon-payment of accelerated principal and interest, if any, with respect to the notes of that series, have been cured or waived as provided in the indentures.

The indentures provide that the trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by the indentures at the request or direction of any of the holders of notes, unless such holders have offered (and if requested, provided) the trustee security or interest is dueindemnity satisfactory to the trustee against the costs, expenses and payable.

“Substitute Rating Agency” meansliabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction. Subject to certain rights of the trustee, the holders of a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” withinmajority in principal amount of the meaningnotes ofRule 15c3-1(c)(2)(vi)(F) the affected series shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the trustee, with respect to the notes of such series.

No holder of any note of any series has any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to the indentures, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any remedy under the Exchange Act, selected byindentures, unless:

that holder has previously given written notice to the trustee of a continuing event of default with respect to the notes of that series; and

the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the notes of that series shall have made written request to the trustee, and offered (and if requested, provided) indemnity or security satisfactory to the trustee, to institute proceedings in respect of such event of default in its own name as trustee under the indentures, and the trustee has not received from the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding notes of that series a direction inconsistent with such written request and has failed to institute such proceeding within 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity or security.

The indentures require us, (as certified bywithin 120 days after the end of Cayman Finance’s fiscal year, to furnish to the trustee a resolutionstatement as to compliance with the indentures. The indentures provide that the trustee may withhold notice to the holders of our boardthe notes of directorsany default or event of default (except in payment on any notes of that series) with respect to notes of that series if it in good faith determines that withholding notice is in the interest of the holders of those notes.

Modification and Waiver

Except as described below, we may modify and amend the indentures and the notes only with the consent of the holders of at least a committee thereof) asmajority in principal amount of the notes of a replacement agency for Moody’sseries. We may not make any modification or S&P,amendment without the consent of each holder of each affected series of notes issued under the indentures then outstanding if that amendment will:

reduce the principal amount of notes of a series whose holders must consent to an amendment or both of them, as the case may be.waiver;

“Treasury Rate” means, for any redemption date,reduce the rate per annum equalof or extend the time for payment of interest (including default interest) on any note;

reduce the principal of or premium on or change the fixed maturity of any note;

waive a default in the payment of the principal of, or premium and interest on, any note (except a rescission of acceleration of notes by the holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the notes and a waiver of the payment default that resulted from such acceleration);

make the principal of, or premium and interest on, any note payable in currency other than U.S. dollars;

amend the contractual right to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment of the principal of, and premium and interest (including Additional Amounts) on, the notes on or after the due dates expressed or provided for in such notes;

make any change to the semi-annual equivalent yieldprovisions relating to maturitywaivers or interpolated maturity (onamendments;

waive a day count basis), computed asredemption payment with respect to any note; provided that such redemption is made at our option;

make any change to the provisions relating to the guarantee by Broadcom Parent in any manner adverse to the holders of the third (3rd) Business Day immediately preceding that redemption date,notes; or

make any change in the provisions of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assumingindentures described under “—Additional Amounts” that adversely affects the right of any holder of such notes or amends the terms of such notes in a priceway that would result in a loss of an exemption from any of the Taxes described thereunder or an exemption from any obligation to withhold or deduct Taxes so described thereunder unless the Payor agrees to pay Additional Amounts, if any, in respect thereof.

Except for certain specified provisions, the holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the notes of a series may on behalf of the holders of all notes of such series waive our compliance with provisions of the indentures. The holders of a majority in principal amount of the notes may on behalf of the holders of all notes waive any past default under the indentures with respect to the notes and its consequences, except a default in the payment of the principal of, or premium and any interest on, the notes;provided, however, that the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding notes of a series may rescind an acceleration and its consequences, including any related payment default that resulted from the acceleration.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, without the consent of any holder of notes, we and the trustee may modify and amend the indentures or the notes to:

cure any ambiguity, to correct any mistake, to correct or supplement any provision in the indentures that may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision in the indentures, or to make other provisions in regard to matters or questions arising under the indentures;

evidence that another person has become a successor of an Obligor and that the successor assumes such Obligor’s covenants, agreements, and obligations in the indentures and in the notes in accordance with the indentures;

surrender any of the Obligors’ rights or powers under the indentures, including the removal of all or any portion of the guarantee release provisions with respect to Broadcom Cayman L.P. described under the third paragraph of the section above under “—Guarantees”, or add to the Obligors’ covenants further covenants for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed asprotection of the holders of all or any series of notes;

add any additional events of default for the benefit of the holders of all or any series of notes;

conform any provision in the indentures to this “Description of Notes;”

secure the notes;

provide for uncertificated notes in addition to or in place of certificated notes;

make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any holder of notes;

evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment of a percentage of its principal amount) equalsuccessor trustee with respect to the Comparable Treasury Pricenotes and add to or change any provisions of the indentures as necessary to provide for that Business Day.or facilitate the administration of the trusts under the indentures by more than one trustee; or

“Trust Indenture Act” meanscomply with the requirements of the SEC in order to effect or maintain the qualification of the indentures under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, (15 U.S. Code§§77aaa-77bbb)as in effect on the date of the indenture; provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date,(the “Trust Indenture Act” means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act as so amended.).


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Defeasance and Discharge

“U.S. Government Obligations”Legal Defeasance means securities which are (i) direct obligations of. The United States of America for the payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged or (ii) obligations of a person controlled by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of The United Stated of America the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by The United States of America, and which in the case of (i) and (ii) are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also include a depository receipt issued by a bank or trust company as custodian with respect to any such U.S. Government Obligation or a specific payment of interest on or principal of any such U.S. Government Obligation held by such custodian for the account of the holder of a depository receipt, providedindentures provide that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depository receiptwe may be discharged from any amount received by the custodianand all obligations in respect of the notes (except for certain obligations to register the transfer or exchange of the notes, to replace stolen, lost or mutilated notes, and to maintain paying agencies and certain provisions relating to the treatment of funds held by paying agents). We will be so discharged upon the deposit with the trustee, in trust, of money and/or U.S. Government Obligation evidencedgovernment obligations that, through the payment of interest and principal in accordance with their terms, will provide money in an amount sufficient in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants to pay and discharge each installment of principal, premium and interest on and any mandatory sinking fund payments in respect of the notes on the stated maturity of those payments in accordance with the terms of the indentures and the notes.

This discharge may occur only if, among other things, we have delivered to the trustee an opinion of counsel stating that we have received from, or there has been published by, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service a ruling or, since the date of execution of the indentures, there has been a change in the applicable U.S. federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such depository receipt.opinion shall confirm that, the holders and beneficial owners of the notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit, defeasance and discharge and will be subject to U.S. federal income tax on the same amounts and in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if the deposit, defeasance and discharge had not occurred.

Defeasance of Certain Covenants. The indentures provide that upon compliance with certain conditions:

we may omit to comply with most covenants set forth in the indentures; and

���any omission to comply with those covenants will not constitute a default or an event of default with respect to the notes, or covenant defeasance.

The conditions include:

depositing with the trustee money and/or U.S. government obligations that, through the payment of interest and principal in accordance with their terms, will provide money in an amount sufficient in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants to pay and discharge each installment of principal of, premium and interest on and any mandatory sinking fund payments in respect of the notes on the stated maturity of those payments in accordance with the terms of the indentures and the notes; and

“Voting Stock”delivering to the trustee an opinion of counsel to the effect that the holders and beneficial owners of the notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit and related covenant defeasance and will be subject to U.S. federal income tax on the same amounts and in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if the deposit and related covenant defeasance had not occurred.

Satisfaction and Discharge

The indentures will be discharged and cease to be of any specified personfurther effect (except as to the surviving rights of the trustee and the Issuers’ obligations in connection therewith and of registration or exchange of notes, as expressly provided for in the indentures) as to all outstanding notes of any date meansseries if:

we have delivered to the Capital Stocktrustee for cancellation all notes of that series (with certain limited exceptions); or

all notes of that series not previously delivered to the trustee for cancellation have become due and payable, will become due and payable within one year, or are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the trustee, and in any such person that iscase we have deposited with the trustee as trust funds the entire amount sufficient to pay at the time entitled to vote generally in the electionmaturity or upon redemption all of the boardprincipal, premium and interest due with respect to those notes;

and if, in either case, we also pay or cause to be paid all other sums payable under the indentures by us and deliver to the trustee an officer’s certificate and opinion of directorscounsel stating that all conditions precedent to the satisfaction and discharge of such person.

the indentures have been complied with.

Book-Entry, Delivery and Form

The notes will beare issued in registered, global form in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. Notes will bewere issued at the closing of this offering only against payment in immediately available funds.

The global notes will bewere deposited upon issuance with the trustee as custodian for DTC, and registered in the name of DTC or its nominee in each case for credit to an account of a direct or indirect participant in DTC as described below. Except as set forth below, globalGlobal notes may be transferred, in whole and not in part, only to another nominee of DTC or to a successor of DTC or its nominee.

Beneficial interests in the global notes may be held through the Euroclear System (“Euroclear”) and Clearstream Banking, S.A. (“Clearstream”) (as indirect participants in DTC). Beneficial interests in the global notes may not be exchanged for notes in certificated form (“certificated notes”) except in the limited circumstances described below. See “Description of the New Notes — “—Exchange of Global Notes for Certificated Notes.”

Transfers of beneficial interests in the global notes will be subject to the applicable rules and procedures of DTC and its direct or indirect participants (including, if applicable, those of Euroclear and Clearstream), which may change from time to time.

Exchange of Global Notes for Certificated Notes

The global notes are exchangeable for certificated notes in definitive, fully registered form without interest coupons only in the following limited circumstances:

DTC (1) notifies us that it is unwilling or unable to act as a depositary for such global note or (2) ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act, and, in either case, we fail to appoint a successor depositary registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act within 90 days; or

we, at our option, notify the trustee in writing that we elect to cause the issuance of the certificated notes.
• DTC (1) notifies us that it is unwilling or unable to act as a depositary for such global note; or (2) ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act, and, in either case, we fail to appoint a successor depositary registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act within 90 days; or
• we, at our option, notify the trustee in writing that we elect to cause the issuance of the certificated notes.

In all cases, certificated notes delivered in exchange for any global notes or beneficial interests therein will be registered in such names as DTC shall direct in writing in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the global notes with like tenor and terms

terms.

Depositary Procedures

The following description of the operations and procedures of DTC, Euroclear and Clearstream are provided solely as a matter of convenience. These operations and procedures are solely within the control of the respective settlement systems and are subject to changes by them. We do not take any responsibility for


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these operations and procedures and urge investors to contact the system or their participants directly to discuss these matters.

DTC has advised us that DTC is a limited-purpose trust company created to hold securities for its participating organizations (collectively, the “Participants”) and to facilitate the clearance and settlement of transactions in those securities between the Participants through electronic book-entry changes in accounts of its Participants. The Participants include securities brokers and dealers, (including the initial purchasers), banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and certain other organizations. Access to DTC’s system is also available to other entities such as banks, brokers, dealers and trust companies that clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with a Participant, either directly or indirectly (collectively, the “Indirect Participants”). Persons who are not Participants may beneficially own securities held by or on behalf of DTC only through the Participants or the Indirect Participants. The ownership interests in, and transfers of ownership interests in, each security held by or on behalf of DTC are recorded on the records of the Participants and Indirect Participants.

DTC has also advised us that, pursuant to procedures established by it:

upon deposit of the global notes, DTC will credit the accounts of the Participants designated by the trustee with portions of the principal amount of the global notes; and

ownership of these interests in the global notes will be shown on, and the transfer of ownership of these interests will be effected only through, records maintained by DTC (with respect to the Participants) or by the Participants and the Indirect Participants (with respect to other owners of beneficial interest in the global notes).
• upon deposit of the global notes, DTC will credit the accounts of the Participants with portions of the principal amount of the global notes; and
• ownership of these interests in the global notes will be shown on, and the transfer of ownership of these interests will be effected only through, records maintained by DTC (with respect to the Participants) or by the Participants and the Indirect Participants (with respect to other owners of beneficial interest in the global notes).

Investors in the global notes who are Participants may hold their interests therein directly through DTC. Investors in the global notes who are not Participants may hold their interests therein indirectly through organizations (including Euroclear and Clearstream) that are Participants in such system. Euroclear and Clearstream will hold interests in the global notes on behalf of their participants through customers’ securities accounts in their respective names on the books of their respective depositories, which are Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V., as operator of Euroclear, and Citibank, N.A., as operator of Clearstream. All interests in a global note, including those held through Euroclear or Clearstream, may be subject to the procedures and requirements of DTC.

Those interests held through Euroclear or Clearstream may also be subject to the procedures and requirements of such systems.

The laws of some states require that certain persons take physical delivery in definitive form of securities that they own. Consequently, the ability to transfer beneficial interests in a global note to such persons will be limited to that extent. Because DTC can act only on behalf of the Participants, which in turn act on behalf of the Indirect Participants, the ability of a person having beneficial interests in a global note to pledge such interests to persons that do not participate in the DTC system, or otherwise take actions in respect of such interests, may be affected by the lack of a physical certificate evidencing such interests.

Except as described above, owners of beneficial interests in the global notes will not have notes registered in their names, will not receive physical delivery of notes in certificated form and will not be considered the registered owners or “Holders” thereof under the indentureindentures for any purpose.

Payments in respect of the principal of, and interest, additional interest and premium, if any, on a global note registered in the name of DTC or its nominee will be payable to DTC in its capacity as the registered holder of the notes under the indenture.indentures. Under the terms of the indenture,indentures, we and the trustee will treat the persons in whose names the notes, including the global notes, are registered as the owners of the notes for the purpose of receiving payments and for all other purposes. Consequently, neither we nor the trustee nor any of our respective agents has or will have any responsibility or liability for:

any aspect of DTC’s records or any Participant’s or Indirect Participant’s records relating to, or payments made on account of, beneficial ownership interests in the global notes or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any of DTC’s records or any Participant’s or Indirect Participant’s records relating to the beneficial ownership interests in the global notes; or

any other matter relating to the actions and practices of DTC or any of its Participants or Indirect Participants.
• any aspect of DTC’s records or any Participant’s or Indirect Participant’s records relating to, or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests in the global notes or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any of DTC’s records or any Participant’s or Indirect Participant’s records relating to the beneficial ownership interests in the global notes; or
• any other matter relating to the actions and practices of DTC or any of its Participants or Indirect Participants.

DTC has advised us that its current practice, upon receipt of any payment in respect of securities such as the notes (including principal and interest), is to credit the accounts of the relevant Participants with the payment on the payment date unless DTC has reason to believe it will not receive payment on such payment date. Each relevant Participant is credited with an amount proportionate to its beneficial ownership of an interest in the principal amount of the relevant security as shown on the records of DTC. Payments by the Participants and the Indirect Participants to the beneficial owners of notes will be governed by standing instructions and customary practices and will be the responsibility of the Participants or the Indirect


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Participants and will not be the responsibility of DTC, the trustee or us. Neither we nor the trustee will be liable for any delay by DTC or any of the Participants or the Indirect Participants in identifying the beneficial owners of the notes, and we and the trustee may conclusively rely on and will be protected in relying on instructions from DTC or its nominee for all purposes.

Transfers between the Participants will be effected in accordance with DTC’s procedures and will be settled insame-day funds, and transfers between participants in Euroclear and Clearstream will be effected in accordance with their respective rules and operating procedures.

Cross-market transfers between the Participants in DTC, on the one hand, and Euroclear or Clearstream participants, on the other hand, will be effected through DTC in accordance with DTC’s rules on behalf of Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be, by their respective depositary; however, such cross-market transactions will require delivery of instructions to Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be, by the counterparty in such system in accordance with the rules and procedures and within the established deadlines (Brussels time) of such system. Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be, will, if the transaction meets its settlement requirements, deliver instructions to its respective depositary to take action to effect final settlement on its behalf by delivering or receiving interests in the relevant global note in DTC, and making or receiving payment in accordance with normal procedures forsame-day funds settlement applicable to DTC. Euroclear participants and Clearstream participants may not deliver instructions directly to the depositories for Euroclear or Clearstream.

DTC has advised us that it will take any action permitted to be taken by a holder of notes only at the direction of one or more Participants to whose account DTC has credited the interests in the global notes and only in respect of such portion of the aggregate principal amount of the notes as to which such Participant or Participants has or have given such direction. However, if there is an event of default under the notes, DTC reserves the right to exchange the global notes for certificated notes, and to distribute such notes to the Participants.

Although DTC, Euroclear and Clearstream have agreed to the foregoing procedures to facilitate transfers of interests in the global notes among participants in DTC, Euroclear and Clearstream, they are under no obligation to perform or to continue to perform such procedures, and may discontinue such procedures at any time. Neither we nor the trustee nor any of our respective agents (including, without limitation, the exchange agent) will have any responsibility for the performance by DTC, Euroclear or Clearstream or their respective participants or indirect participants of their respective obligations under the rules and procedures governing their operations.

Payment and Paying Agents

Payments on the global notes will be made in U.S. dollars by wire transfer. If we issue definitive notes, the holders of definitive notes will be able to receive payments of principal of and interest on their notes at the office of our paying agent. Payment of principal of a definitive note may be made only against surrender of the note to our paying agent. We have the option, however, of making payments of interest by wire transfer or by mailing checks to the address of the holder appearing in the register of note holders maintained by the registrar.

We will make any required interest payments to the person in whose name a note is registered at the close of business on the record date for the interest payment.

The trustee will be designated as our paying agent for payments on the notes. We may from time to time designate additional paying agents, rescind the designation of any paying agent or approve a change in the office through which any paying agent acts.

Notices

Any notices required to be given to the holders of the notes will be given to DTC, as the registered holder of the global notes. In the event that the global notes are exchanged for notes in definitive form, notices to holders of the notes will be sent by first-class maildelivered to the addresses that appear on the register of noteholders maintained by the registrar.

The Trustee

The trustee’s current address is Wilmington Trust, National Association, 246 Goose Lane, Suite 105, Guilford, Connecticut 06437, Attn: Broadcom Corporation Administrator.

The indentures provide that, except during the continuance of an event of default, the trustee will perform only those duties that are specifically set forth in the indentures and no others. If an event of default has occurred and is continuing, the trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by the indentures and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs.

The indentures and provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, incorporated by reference in the indentures contain limitations on the rights of the trustee, should it become our creditor, to obtain payment of claims in certain cases or to liquidate certain property received by it in respect of any such claim as security or otherwise. The trustee is permitted to engage in other transactions with us or any of our affiliates. If the trustee acquires any conflicting interest (as defined in the indentures or in the Trust Indenture Act), it must eliminate that conflict or resign.

Governing Law

The indentures and the notes, including any claim or controversy arising out of or relating to the indentures or the notes, are governed by the laws of the State of New York.

LIMITATIONS ON VALIDITY AND ENFORCEABILITY OF THE GUARANTEES

Set forth below is a summary of certain limitations on the enforceability of the guarantees in each of the jurisdictions in which guarantees are being provided. It is a summary only, and proceedings of bankruptcy, insolvency or a similar event could be initiated in any of these jurisdictions and in the jurisdiction of organization of a future guarantor of the notes. The application of these various laws in multiple jurisdictions could trigger disputes over which jurisdiction’s law should apply, and could adversely affect your ability to enforce your rights and to collect payment in full under the notes and the guarantees.

Also set out below is a brief description of certain aspects of insolvency law, in force as of the date hereof, in the Cayman Islands and Singapore. In the event that any one or more of the Guarantors experiences financial difficulty, it is not possible to predict with certainty in which jurisdiction or jurisdictions insolvency or similar proceedings would be commenced, or the outcome of such proceedings.

Cayman Islands

Cayman Finance is an exempted company incorporated with limited liability under the laws of the Cayman Islands, and Broadcom Cayman L.P. is an exempted limited partnership registered under the laws of the Cayman Islands.

Enforcement of the obligations of each of Cayman Finance and Broadcom Cayman L.P. as a Guarantor, may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation, reorganization, readjustment of debts or moratorium and other laws of general application relating to or affecting the rights of creditors or by prescription or lapse of time.

Voidable Preferences

Every conveyance or transfer of property, or charge thereon, and every payment obligation and judicial proceeding, made, incurred, taken or suffered by a Cayman Islands company in favor of any creditor at a time when the Cayman Islands company was unable to pay its debts within the meaning of Section 93 of the Companies Law (2016 Revision) (the “Cayman Companies Law”), with a view to giving such creditor a preference over the other creditors of the Cayman Islands company, would be invalid pursuant to Section 145(1) of the Cayman Companies Law, if made, incurred, taken or suffered within the six months preceding the commencement of a liquidation of the Cayman Islands company.

Such actions will be deemed to have been made with a view to giving such creditor a preference if such creditor is a “related party” of the Cayman Islands company. A creditor shall be treated as a related party if it has the ability to control the Cayman Islands company or exercise significant influence over the Cayman Islands company in making financial and operating decisions.

The concept of a “conveyance” has a wide meaning and these provisions could potentially impact on a wide range of transactions.

Dispositions at an Undervalue

Any disposition of property made below market value by or on behalf of the Cayman Islands company and with an intent to defraud its creditors (which means an intention to willfully defeat an obligation owed to a creditor), shall be voidable:

(i)under Section 146(2) of the Cayman Companies Law at the instance of the Cayman Islands company’s official liquidator; and

(ii)under the Fraudulent Dispositions Law (1996 Revision), at the instance of a creditor thereby prejudiced,

provided that in either case, no such action may be commenced more than six years after the date of the relevant disposition.

The concept of a “disposition of property” is potentially very wide and this provision could potentially impact on a wide range of transactions.

Fraudulent Trading

Pursuant to section 147 of the Cayman Companies Law, if in the course of the winding up of the Cayman Islands company, it appears that any business of the Cayman Islands company has been carried on with intent to defraud creditors of the Cayman Islands company or creditors of any other person or for any fraudulent purpose, the courts of the Cayman Islands (“Cayman Court”) may, upon application of the liquidator declare that any persons who were knowingly parties to the carrying on of the business of the Cayman Islands company in such manner are liable to make such contributions, if any, to the Cayman Islands company’s assets as the Cayman Court thinks proper.

Singapore

Corporate Authorization and Capacity

Broadcom Parent is a public limited company incorporated under the laws of the Republic of Singapore.

Generally, a company incorporated in Singapore (the “Singapore Company”) must have the requisite capacity and power to enter into guarantees within the parameters of its constitutional documents. This would also involve ensuring that the Singapore Company has taken all corporate action, including the passing of corporate resolutions required under its constitutional documents, to authorize the execution by it of the guarantees and the exercise by it of its rights and the performance by it of its obligations under the guarantees.

Unfair Preferences and Undervalue Transactions

The guarantee given by a Singapore Company might be subject to challenges by a liquidator or a judicial manager under Singapore laws including those relating to transactions at an undervalue or preferential transactions.

On the application of a liquidator or judicial manager, the Singapore courts may make such an order as they think fit for restoring the position to what it would have been if the Singapore Company subject to the application had not entered into, inter alia, any of the following types of transactions:

a transaction with any person at an undervalue which took place at any time within the period of five years ending on the date of the commencement of the winding up or the judicial management, as the case may be;

a transaction under which an unfair preference is given by the Singapore Company to a person who is connected with the Singapore Company (otherwise than by reason only of being its employee), and which is not a transaction at an undervalue, at any time within the period of two years ending on the date of the commencement of the winding up or the judicial management, as the case may be; or

in any other case of a transaction under which an unfair preference is given by the Singapore Company, and which is not a transaction at an undervalue, at any time within the period of six months ending on the date of the commencement of the winding up or the judicial management, as the case may be;

provided that the Singapore Company was insolvent when it entered into the transaction or became insolvent as a result of the transaction. Where the transaction was entered into with a person who is connected with the Singapore Company (otherwise than by reason only of being its employee), the requirement that the

Singapore Company was insolvent at the time of the transaction or became insolvent as a result of the transaction shall be presumed to be satisfied unless the contrary is shown.

A Singapore Company will be treated as having entered into a transaction with a person at an undervalue if:

it makes a gift to that person or otherwise enters into a transaction with that person on terms that provide for it to receive no consideration; or

it enters into a transaction with that person for a consideration the value of which, in money or money’s worth, is significantly less than the value, in money or money’s worth, of the consideration provided by the Singapore Company.

The Singapore courts shall not make any order in respect of a transaction at an undervalue if it is satisfied that the Singapore Company entered into the transaction in good faith and for the purpose of carrying on its business and that, at the time it entered into the transaction, there were reasonable grounds for believing that the transaction would benefit the Singapore Company.

The Singapore Company will be treated as having given an unfair preference to another person if:

that person is a creditor of the Singapore Company or a surety or guarantor for a debt or other liability of the Singapore Company; and

the Singapore Company does anything or suffers anything to be done that (in either case) has the effect of putting the person into a position which, in the event of the winding up of the Singapore Company, will be better than the position he would have been in if that thing had not been done.

The Singapore courts shall not make an order in respect of an unfair preference given to any person unless the Singapore Company, when giving the unfair preference, was influenced in deciding to give the unfair preference by a desire to produce in relation to that person the effect referred to in the second bullet point immediately preceding this paragraph. If the Singapore Company gave an unfair preference to a person who was, at the time the unfair preference was given, was connected with the Singapore Company (otherwise than by reason only of being its employee), the Singapore Company shall be presumed, unless the contrary is shown, to have been influenced in deciding to give the unfair preference by the desire referred to above.

Difference in Insolvency Law

One of the guarantors, Broadcom Limited, is incorporated under the laws of Singapore.

Any insolvency proceedings applicable to it will be likely to be governed by Singapore insolvency laws. Singapore insolvency laws differ from the insolvency laws of the United States and may make it more difficult for creditors to recover the amount in respect of Broadcom Limited’s guarantee than they would have recovered in a liquidation or bankruptcy proceeding in the United States.

Priority of Secured Creditors

With limited exceptions, Singapore insolvency laws generally recognize the priority of secured creditors over unsecured creditors. Such exceptions include certain costs of insolvency practitioners (e.g. liquidators and judicial managers) and employee related claims to have priority over floating charges and for certain Singapore government related liabilities to have high priority.

Preferential Creditors

Under Section 328 of the Singapore Companies Act, in aMATERIAL winding-up of a Singapore company, generally, certain preferential debts are required to be paid in priority to the general body of unsecured creditors.

The preferential debts covered by Section 328 of the Singapore Companies Act, and their respective priorities, are described broadly below:

first, costs and expenses of the winding up;

second, employees’ wages and salaries (including any allowances or reimbursements payable to an employee on termination of his services);

•third, retrenchment benefits orex gratia payments under employment contracts;

fourth, work injury compensation under the Work Injury Compensation Act (Cap. 354 of Singapore);

fifth, certain amounts due under employees’ superannuation or provident funds or under any scheme of superannuation which is an approved scheme under Singapore income tax laws;

sixth, other remuneration payable in respect of employees’ vacation leave; and

seventh, taxes assessed and goods and services tax.

Items one to six have priority over floating charges. In addition, apart from Section 328 of the Singapore Companies Act, there are certain other laws which confer priority over the general body of unsecured creditors and these include certain other employee and revenue related claims.

Disclaimer of Onerous Contracts

Section 332 of the Singapore Companies Act provides that where any property of a company consists of either an estate or interest in land that is burdened with onerous covenants, shares in corporations, unprofitable contracts or any other property that is unsaleable, or not readily saleable, by reason of its binding the company to the performance of any onerous act, or to the payment of any sum of money, the liquidator may with the leave of court or the committee of inspection, disclaim such property within 12 months of (i) commencement ofwinding-up or (ii) (where any such property has not come to the knowledge of the liquidator within one month after the commencement of the winding up) within 12 months of such time as the liquidator becomes aware of such property, or such extended period as is allowed by the court.

SERVICE OF PROCESS AND ENFORCEMENT OF CIVIL LIABILITIES

Cayman Islands

The courts of the Cayman Islands are unlikely (i) to recognize or enforce against Cayman Finance or Broadcom Cayman L.P. judgments of courts of the United States predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the securities laws of the United States or any State; and (ii) in original actions brought in the Cayman Islands, to impose liabilities against Cayman Finance or Broadcom Cayman L.P. predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the securities laws of the United States or any State, so far as the liabilities imposed by those provisions are penal in nature. In those circumstances, although there is no statutory enforcement in the Cayman Islands of judgments obtained in the United States, the courts of the Cayman Islands will recognize and enforce a foreign money judgment of a foreign court of competent jurisdiction without retrial on the merits based on the principle that a judgment of a competent foreign court imposes upon the judgment debtor an obligation to pay the sum for which judgment has been given provided certain conditions are met. For such a foreign judgment to be enforced in the Cayman Islands, such judgment must be final and conclusive and for a liquidated sum, and must not be in respect of taxes or a fine or penalty, inconsistent with a Cayman Islands judgment in respect of the same matter, impeachable on the grounds of fraud or obtained in a manner, or be of a kind the enforcement of which is, contrary to natural justice or the public policy of the Cayman Islands (awards of punitive or multiple damages may well be held to be contrary to public policy). A Cayman Islands court may stay enforcement proceedings if concurrent proceedings are being brought elsewhere.

Singapore

Broadcom Limited is incorporated in Singapore under the Companies Act, Chapter 50 of Singapore. Some of its directors reside outside the United States and a substantial portion of its assets are located outside the United States. As a result, it may not be possible for investors to effect service of process within the United States upon Broadcom Parent or to enforce against it in United States courts, judgments obtained in such courts predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the federal securities laws of the United States.

There is uncertainty as to whether judgments of courts in the United States based upon the civil liability provisions of the federal securities laws of the United States would be recognized or enforceable in Singapore courts, and there is doubt as to whether Singapore courts would enter judgments in original actions brought in Singapore courts based solely upon the civil liability provisions of the federal securities laws of the United States. A final and conclusive judgment in the federal or state courts of the United States under which a fixed sum of money is payable, other than a sum payable in respect of taxes, fines, penalties or similar charges, may be enforced by commencing an action in the courts of Singapore for the amount due under the judgment.

Civil liability provisions of the federal and state securities laws of the United States permit the award of punitive damages against Broadcom Parent, its directors and officers. Singapore courts would not recognize or enforce judgments against Broadcom Parent, its directors and officers to the extent that the judgment is punitive or penal. It is uncertain as to whether a judgment of the courts of the United States under civil liability provisions of the federal securities laws of the United States would be determined by the Singapore courts to be or not be punitive or penal in nature. Such a determination has yet to be made by any Singapore court. The Singapore courts also may not recognize or enforce a foreign judgment if the foreign judgment is procured by fraud, its enforcement would be contrary to public policy, or the proceedings in which the judgment was obtained were opposed to natural justice.

UNITED STATES FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSIDERATIONS

The following discussion is a summary of the anticipated material United States federal income tax consequences to a holder of old notes relatingconsiderations relevant to the exchange of oldthe outstanding notes for new notes.exchange notes pursuant to the exchange offer, but does not purport to be a complete analysis of all potential tax effects. This summarydiscussion is based upon the Code, United States Treasury Regulations issued thereunder, administrative rulings and pronouncements and judicial decisions now in effect, all of which are subject to change at any time. Any such change may be applied retroactively in a manner that could adversely affect a holder of the notes. We have not sought and do not intend to seek any rulings from the United States Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) regarding the matters discussed below. There can be no assurance that the IRS will not take positions different from those discussed below or that any such positions would not be sustained.

This discussion does not address all of the U.S. federal income tax law in effect on the date of this prospectus, which is subject to differing interpretations or change, possibly with retroactive effect. This summary does not discuss all aspects of United States federal income taxation whichconsequences that may be importantrelevant to a holder’s particular investors in light of their individual investment circumstances such as old notes held by investorsor to holders subject to special rules under U.S. federal income tax rules (e.g.,laws, such as:

banks, thrifts and other financial institutions, institutions;

controlled foreign corporations and passive foreign investment companies

U.S. expatriates;

insurance companies;

dealers in securities or currencies and traders in securities that have elected themark-to-market method of accounting for their securities;

entities treated as partnerships or other pass-through entities for U.S. federal income tax purposes or investors in such entities;

holders subject to the alternative minimum tax;

tax-exempt organizations;

regulated investment companies broker-dealers, partnerships and their partners,real estate investment trusts; and tax-exempt organizations (including private foundations)) or to

persons that will holdholding the new notes as part of a straddle, hedge, conversion constructive sale,transaction or other integrated security transactiontransaction.

Persons considering the purchase of the notes should consult their own advisors concerning the application of U.S. federal income, estate and gift tax laws, as well as the laws of any state, local or foreign taxing jurisdiction or under any applicable tax treaty, to their particular situations.

Exchange Pursuant to the Exchange Offer

The exchange of the outstanding notes for United Statesthe exchange notes in the exchange offer will not be treated as an “exchange” for U.S. federal income tax purposes allbecause the exchange notes will not be considered to differ materially in kind or extent from the outstanding notes of whomthe applicable series. Accordingly, the exchange of outstanding notes for exchange notes will not be a taxable event to holders for U.S. federal income tax purposes. Moreover, the exchange notes will have the same tax attributes as the outstanding notes exchanged therefor and the same tax consequences to holders as the exchange notes have to holders, including without limitation, the same issue price, adjusted issue price, adjusted tax basis and holding period.

CERTAIN CAYMAN ISLANDS TAX CONSIDERATIONS

The following is a discussion on certain Cayman Islands income tax consequences of an investment in the notes. The discussion is a general summary of present law, which is subject to prospective and retroactive change. It is not intended as tax advice, does not consider any investor’s particular circumstances and does not consider tax consequences other than those arising under Cayman Islands law.

Existing Cayman Islands Laws

Payments of interest and principal on the notes will not be subject to taxation in the Cayman Islands and no withholding will be required on the payment of interest and principal of the notes, as the case may be, nor will gains derived from the disposal of the notes be subject to Cayman Islands income or corporation tax. The Cayman Islands currently have no income, corporation or capital gains tax and no estate duty, inheritance tax or gift tax.

No stamp duty is payable in respect of the issue of the notes. An instrument of transfer in respect of a notes is stampable if executed in or brought into the Cayman Islands.

The Tax Concessions Law (2011 Revision)—Undertaking as to Tax Concessions

Cayman Finance has been incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands as an exempted company with limited liability and, as such, has obtained an undertaking from the Governor in Cabinet of the Cayman Islands in the following form:

“In accordance with the provision of section 6 of The Tax Concessions Law (2011 Revision), the Governor in Cabinet undertakes with Cayman Finance:

(i)That no law which is hereafter enacted in the Islands imposing any tax to be levied on profits, income, gains or appreciations shall apply to Cayman Finance or its operations; and

(ii)In addition, that no tax to be levied on profits, income, gains or appreciations or which is in the nature of estate duty or inheritance tax shall be payable:

on or in respect of the shares, debentures or other obligations of Cayman Finance; or

by way of the withholding in whole or part, of any relevant payment as defined in Section 6(3) of the Tax Concessions Law (2011 Revision).

These concessions shall be for a period of twenty years from 9 June 2015”.

FATCA

The Cayman Islands has entered into a Model 1 intergovernmental agreement (the “US IGA”) with the United States. Under the terms of the US IGA, Cayman Finance is required to register with the IRS to obtain a Global Intermediary Identification Number (“GIIN”) and then comply with the Cayman Islands Tax Information Authority Law (2017 Revision) together with regulations and guidance notes made pursuant to such Law (the “Cayman FATCA Legislation”) that give effect to, amongst other things, the US IGA. As such, Cayman Finance or its agent is required to collect and report to the Cayman Islands Tax Information Authority substantial information regarding certain holders of notes. Under the terms of the US IGA (i) the Cayman Islands Tax Information Authority will exchange such information with the IRS and (ii) withholding will not be imposed on payments made to Cayman Finance unless the IRS has specifically listed Cayman Finance as anon-participating financial institution, or on payments made by Cayman Finance to the holders of notes unless Cayman Finance has otherwise assumed responsibility for withholding under United States tax law. Cayman Finance has obtained a GIIN and intends to comply with the Cayman FATCA Legislation.

UK FATCA and the OECD Common Reporting Standard

The Cayman Islands has also (i) entered into a similar intergovernmental agreement (the “UK IGA”) with the United Kingdom, which imposes requirements similar to those under the US IGA with respect to holders of notes who are resident in the United Kingdom for tax purposes and (ii) signed, along with over 80 other countries, a multilateral competent authority agreement to implement the OECD Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information—Common Reporting Standard (the “CRS”), which requires “Financial Institutions” to identify, and report information in respect of, specified persons in the jurisdictions which sign and implement the CRS. Cayman Finance must also adopt and implement written policies and procedures setting out how it will address its obligations under the CRS.

Cayman Islands Anti-Money Laundering Legislation

Cayman Finance is subject to the Anti-Money Laundering Regulations, 2017 of the Cayman Islands (“Regulations”). The Regulations apply to anyone conducting “relevant financial business” in or from the Cayman Islands intending to form a business relationship or carry out aone-off transaction. The Regulations require a financial service provider to maintain certain anti-money laundering procedures including those for the purposes of verifying the identity and source of funds of an “applicant for business”; e.g. an investor, as well as the identity of the beneficial owner/controller of the investor, where applicable. Except in certain circumstances, including where an entity is regulated by a recognized overseas regulatory authority and/or listed on a recognized stock exchange in an approved jurisdiction, Cayman Finance will likely be required to verify each investor’s identity and the source of the payment used by such investor for purchasing the notes in a manner similar to the obligations imposed under the laws of other major financial centers. Application of an identity verification exemption at the time of purchase of the notes may nevertheless require verification of identity prior to payment of proceeds from the notes. In addition, if any person in the Cayman Islands knows or suspects, or has reasonable grounds for knowing or suspecting that another person is engaged in criminal conduct or money laundering, or is involved with terrorism or terrorist financing and property, and the information for that knowledge or suspicion came to their attention in the course of business in the regulated sector, or other trade, profession, business or employment, the person will be required to report such knowledge or suspicion to (i) the Financial Reporting Authority of the Cayman Islands (the “FRA”), pursuant to the Proceeds of Crime Law (2017 Revision) of the Cayman Islands (the “PCL”), if the disclosure relates to criminal conduct or money laundering, or (ii) a police officer of the rank of constable or higher, or the FRA, pursuant to the Terrorism Law (2017 Revision) of the Cayman Islands, if the disclosure relates to involvement with terrorism or terrorist financing and property. If Cayman Finance were determined by the Cayman Islands authorities to be in violation of the PCL, the Terrorism Law or the Regulations, Cayman Finance could be subject to substantial criminal penalties and/or administrative fines. Cayman Finance may be subject to tax rules that differ significantly from those summarized below. This summary addresses investors who will holdsimilar restrictions in other jurisdictions. Such a violation could materially adversely affect the new notes as “capital assets” (generally, property held for investment) undertiming and amount of payments by Cayman Finance to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). Each holder of old notes is


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urged to consult its tax advisor regarding the United States federal, state, local, andnon-United States income and other tax considerationsholders of the purchase, ownership, and disposition of the new notes.

Exchange of old notes for new notes

An exchange of old notes for new notes pursuant to the exchange offers will be ignored for United States federal income tax purposes. Consequently, a holder of old notes will not recognize gain or loss, for United States federal income tax purposes, as a result of exchanging old notes for new notes pursuant to the exchange offers. The holding period of the new notes will be the same as the holding period of the old notes and the tax basis in the new notes will be the same as the adjusted tax basis in the old notes as determined immediately before the exchange. A holder who does not exchange its old notes for new notes pursuant to the exchange offers will not recognize any gain or loss, for United States federal income tax purposes, upon consummation of the exchange offers.
PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

Each broker-dealer that receives newexchange notes for its own account pursuant to the exchange offersoffer must acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of the newexchange notes. This prospectus, as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, may be used by a broker-dealer in connection with resales of newexchange notes received in exchange for oldoutstanding notes where such oldthe outstanding notes were acquired as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities. UnderIn addition, all dealers effecting transactions in the registration rights agreementexchange notes may be required to deliver a prospectus. To the extent any such broker-dealer participates in the exchange offer, we have agreed that for a period of up to 180 days after the earlier of (i) 120 days fromday the date theregistered exchange offer registration statement is declared effective and (ii) the date on whichexpires (or such shorter period if a broker-dealer is no longer required to deliver a prospectus in connection with market-trading or other trading activities,prospectus), we will make this prospectus, as amended or supplemented, available to anysuch broker-dealer for use in connection with any such resale.

resale, and will deliver as many additional copies of this prospectus and each amendment or supplement to this prospectus and any documents incorporated by reference in this prospectus as such broker-dealer may request in the letter of transmittal.

We will not receive any proceeds from any sale of newexchange notes by broker-dealers. NewExchange notes received by broker-dealers for their own accountaccounts pursuant to the exchange offersoffer may be sold from time to time in one or more transactions:

• in theover-the-counter market;
• in negotiated transactions;
• through the writing of options on the new notes; or
• a combination of such methods of resale, at market prices prevailing at the time of resale, at prices related to such prevailing market prices or at negotiated prices.
transactions in theover-the-counter market, in negotiated transactions, through the writing of options on the exchange notes or a combination of these methods of resale, at market prices prevailing at the time of resale, at prices related to the prevailing market prices or negotiated prices. Any resale may be made directly to purchasers or to or through brokers or dealers who may receive compensation in the form of commissions or concessions from any such broker-dealer or the purchasers of any such newexchange notes. Any broker-dealer who holds oldthat resells exchange notes acquiredthat were received by it for its own account as a result of market-making activities, and who receives new notes in exchange for old notes pursuant to the exchange offers,offer and any broker or dealer that participates in a distribution of newthe exchange notes may be deemed to be an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act and must comply with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale transaction, including the delivery of a prospectus that contains information with respect to any selling holder required by the Securities Act in connection withprofit on any resale of the newexchange notes and any profit of any such resale of new notes and any commissioncommissions or concessions received by any suchthese persons may be deemed to be underwriting compensation under the Securities Act. The letter of transmittal states that by acknowledging that it will deliver and by delivering a prospectus, a broker-dealer will not be deemed to admit that it is an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act.
Furthermore, any broker-dealer that acquired any of the old notes directly from us:
• may not rely on the applicable interpretation of the staff of the SEC’s position contained in Exxon Capital Holdings Corp., SEC no-action letter (publicly available May 13, 1988), Morgan Stanley & Co.


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Incorporated, SEC no-action letter (publicly available June 5, 1991) and Shearman & Sterling, SEC no-action letter (publicly available July 2, 1993); and
• must also be named as a selling noteholder in connection with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act relating to any resale transaction.
For a period ending on the earlier of (i) 120 days from the date on which the exchange offer registration statement is declared effective and (ii) the date on which a broker-dealer is no longer required to deliver a prospectus in connection with market-making or other trading activities, we will provide sufficient copies of the latest version of the prospectus to broker-dealers upon request. We have agreed to pay all expenses incident to the exchange offersoffer, including the expenses of one counsel for the holders of the outstanding notes, other than agency fees and commissions and underwriting discounts and commissionsor concessions of any brokers or dealers, and will indemnify the holders of the oldoutstanding notes, (includingincluding any broker-dealers)broker-dealers, against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act.

LEGAL MATTERS

Certain legal matters in connection with thesethis exchange offersoffer with respect to U.S. law will be passed upon for us by Skadden, Arps, Slate, MeagherLatham & FlomWatkins LLP, Palo Alto, California.

with respect to Cayman Islands law will be passed upon for us by Maples and Calder and with respect to Singapore law will be passed upon for us by Allen & Gledhill LLP.

EXPERTS

The financial statements and management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting (which is included in Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting) incorporated in this prospectus by reference to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended October 29, 2017 have been so incorporated in reliance on the reports of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, given on the authority of said firm as experts in auditing and accounting.

The consolidated financial statements of Broadcom Corporation and subsidiaries as of December 31, 20102015 and 2009,2014, and for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2010, and management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 20102015, have been incorporated by reference herein and in the registration statement in reliance upon the reportsreport of KPMG LLP, independent registered public accounting firm, incorporated by reference herein, and upon the authority of said firm as experts in accounting and auditing.

$17,550,000,000

LOGO

Broadcom Corporation

Broadcom Cayman Finance Limited

Exchange Offer for

2.375% Senior Notes due 2020

3.000% Senior Notes due 2022

3.625% Senior Notes due 2024

3.875% Senior Notes due 2027

2.200% Senior Notes due 2021

2.650% Senior Notes due 2023

3.125% Senior Notes due 2025

3.500% Senior Notes due 2028

PROSPECTUS

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The audit report on

PART II

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

ITEM 20.INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

Subject to the consolidated financial statements dated February 2, 2011, refersSingapore Companies Act (the “SCA”) and every other Act for the time being in force concerning companies and affecting Broadcom, Broadcom’s constitution provides that, subject to the SCA, every director, secretary and other officer of Broadcom Corporation’s 2010 adoptionand its subsidiaries and affiliates shall be entitled to be indemnified by Broadcom against any liability incurred by him or her or to be incurred by him or her in the execution and discharge of his or her duties or in relation thereto.

In addition, no director, secretary or other officer of Broadcom and its subsidiaries and affiliates shall be liable for the acts, receipts, neglects or defaults of any other director or officer, or for joining in any receipt or other act for conformity, or for any loss or expense incurred by Broadcom, through the insufficiency or deficiency of title to any property acquired by order of the provisionsdirectors for or on behalf of FASB Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) Topic 605, Multiple-Deliverable Revenue Arrangements, and FASB ASC Topic 985, Certain Revenue Arrangements That Include Software Elements, and Broadcom Corporation’s 2009 adoptionor for the insufficiency or deficiency of FASB ASC Topic 805, Business Combinations.

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION
This prospectus is part of a registration statement onForm S-4 that we have filed with the SEC under the Securities Act. This prospectus does not contain all of the information set forthany security in the registration statement. For further information about us and the new notes, you should refer to the registration statement. This prospectus summarizes material provisions of contracts and other documents toor upon which we refer you. Since this prospectus may not contain all of the information that you may find important, you should review the full text of these documents. We have filed these documents as exhibits to our registration statement.
Under the terms of the indenture governing the notes, we will agree that, whether or not we are required to do so by the rules and regulations of the SEC, for so long as any of the notes remain outstanding, we will file annual, quarterly and current reports andmoneys of Broadcom are invested or for any loss or damage arising from the bankruptcy, insolvency or tortious act of any person with whom any moneys, securities or effects are deposited or left, or any other information withloss, damage or misfortune which happens in the SEC. You may access these filings through the SEC’s Internet site at www.sec.gov. This site contains reports and other information that we will file electronically with the SEC. You may also read and copy any document we file at the SEC’s public reference room located at 100 F Street, N.E., Room 1580, Washington, D.C. 20549. You may obtain further information on the operationexecution of the Public Reference Room by callingduties of his or her office or in relation thereto, unless the SEC at1-800-SEC-0330. Our SEC filings also are availablesame happens through his own negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust.

Section 172 of the SCA prohibits a company from indemnifying its directors or officers against liability, which would otherwise attach to the public over the Internet at the SEC’s website athttp://www.sec.govand through the “Investors” section of our website atwww.broadcom.com. The information contained on or that can be accessed through the websites of Broadcom or its subsidiaries is not incorporated by reference in, and is not part of, this prospectus, and you should not rely on any such informationthem in connection with your investment decisionany negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust in relation to exchange your outstanding old notesthe company. However, a company is not prohibited from (a) purchasing and maintaining for new notes.


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We are incorporatingany such officer insurance against any such liability, or (b) indemnifying such officer against any liability incurred by reference into this prospectus certain information we have filed withhim or her to a person other than the SEC, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to those documents and such documents are deemed to be included as part of this prospectus. We incorporate by reference in this prospectuscompany, except when the information contained in the documents listed below andindemnity is against (i) any future filings we make with the SEC under Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d)liability of the Exchange Act (excludingdirector or officer to pay (A) a fine in criminal proceedings or (B) a penalty sum payable to a regulatory authority fornon-compliance with any information furnishedrequirement of a regulatory nature; or (ii) any liability incurred by the director or officer (A) in defending criminal proceedings in which he is convicted, (B) in defending civil proceedings brought by the company or a related company in which judgment is given against such director or officer, or (C) in connection with an application for relief under section 76A(13) or section 391 of the SCA, in which the court refuses to grant him or her relief.

Broadcom has entered into indemnification agreements with its officers and not fileddirectors. These indemnification agreements provide Broadcom’s officers and directors with the SEC), after the date of this prospectus and priorindemnification to the earliermaximum extent permitted by the SCA. Broadcom has also obtained a directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policy that will insure directors and officers against the cost of defense, settlement or payment of a judgment under certain circumstances which are permitted under the time we exchange all of the old notes for new notes and the termination of these exchange offers:

SCA.

ITEM 21.
• Annual Report onForm 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010, filed with the SEC on February 2, 2011;EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
• Portions of the Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed on March 18, 2011 that are incorporated by reference into Part III of our Annual Report onForm 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010, filed with the SEC on February 2, 2011;
• Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarterly periods ended March 31, 2011 and June 30, 2011; and
• Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on January 21, 2011, February 4, 2011, February 10, 2011, March 21, 2011, March 23, 2011, March 25, 2011, May 9, 2011 and May 25, 2011.
You may request a copy of these filings and any

(a) Exhibits

The attached exhibit specifically incorporated by reference in those documents at no cost, by writing or telephoning us at the following address:

Broadcom Corporation
5300 California Avenue
Irvine, California92617-3038
Attn: General Counsel
Telephone:(949) 926-5000
Any statement contained in a document incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this prospectus to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which alsoindex is incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this prospectus.
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herein.

(b) Financial Statement Schedules

COMPANY LOGO
Broadcom Corporation
Offer to Exchange
$300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 1.500% Senior Notes due 2013
(CUSIPs 111320AA5 and U11086AA0)
for
$300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 1.500% Senior Notes due 2013
(CUSIP 111320AB3)
that have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
and
$400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2.375% Senior Notes due 2015
(CUSIPs 111320AC1 and U11086AB8)
for
$400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 2.375% Senior Notes due 2015
(CUSIP 111320AD9)
that have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
PROSPECTUS
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PART II
INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN THE PROSPECTUS
Item 20.Indemnification of Directors, Officers, Managers and Members
The Company’s Second Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation (the “Articles of Incorporation”) limit the personal liability of its directors for monetary damages to the fullest extent permitted by the California General Corporation Law (the “California Law”). Under the California Law, a director’s liability to a company or its shareholders may not be limited with respect to the following items: (i) acts or omissions that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing and culpable violation of law, (ii) acts or omissions that a director believes to be contrary to the best interests of the company or its shareholders or that involve the absence of good faith on the part of the director, (iii) any transaction from which a director derived an improper personal benefit, (iv) acts or omissions that show a reckless disregard for the director’s duty to the company or its shareholders in circumstances in which the director was aware, or should have been aware, in the ordinary course of performing a director’s duties, of a risk of a serious injury to the company or its shareholders, (v) acts or omissions that constitute an unexcused pattern of inattention that amounts to an abdication of the director’s duty to the company or its shareholders, (vi) contracts or transactions between the company and a director within the scope of Section 310 of the California Law, (vii) improper distributions, loans and guarantees under Section 316 of the California Law, (viii) acts or omissions occurring prior to the date such provision eliminating or limiting the personal liability of a director became effective or (ix) acts or omissions as an officer, notwithstanding that the officer is also a director or that his or her actions, if negligent or improper, have been ratified by the directors. The limitation of liability does not affect the availability of injunctions and other equitable remedies available to the Company’s shareholders for any violation by a director of the director’s fiduciary duty to the Company or its shareholders.
The Company’s Articles of Incorporation also include an authorization for the Company to indemnify its “agents” (as defined in Section 317 of the California Law) through bylaw provisions, by agreement or otherwise, to the fullest extent permitted by law. Pursuant to this provision, the Company’s Bylaws, as amended through December 21, 2007 (the “Bylaws”) provide for indemnification of the Company’s directors and officers. In addition, the Company may, at its discretion, provide indemnification to persons whom it is not obligated to indemnify, including its employees and other agents. The Bylaws also allow the Company to enter into indemnity agreements with individual directors, officers, employees and other agents. Such indemnity agreements have been entered into with all directors and executive officers and provide the maximum indemnification permitted by law. These agreements, together with the Company’s Bylaws and Articles of Incorporation, may require the Company, among other things, to indemnify these directors or executive officers (other than for liability resulting from willful misconduct of a culpable nature), to advance expenses to them as theyFinancial schedules are incurred, provided that they undertake to repay the amount advanced if it is ultimately determined by a court of competent jurisdiction thatomitted because they are not entitled to indemnification, and to obtain directors’ and officers’ insurance if available on reasonable terms. Section 317applicable or the information is incorporated herein by reference.

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ITEM 22.UNDERTAKINGS

(a) Each of the California Law and the Company’s Bylaws makes provision for the indemnification of officers, directors and other corporate agents in terms sufficiently broad to indemnify such persons, under certain circumstances, for liabilities (including reimbursement of expenses incurred) arising under the Securities Act.

Item 21.Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules.
See the “Index of Exhibits” following the signature pages hereto.
Item 22.Undertakings
(a) The undersigned registrantregistrants hereby undertakes:

(1) Toto file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;


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(i)to include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;

(ii)to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement.; and

(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement; and
(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement.

(iii)to include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement;

(2) That,that, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initialbona fideoffering thereof.

thereof;

(3) Toto remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

offering;

(4) That,that, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act to any purchaser, if the registrants are subject to Rule 430C, each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than registration statements relying on Rule 430B or other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A, shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such first use, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such date of first use; and

(5) that, for the purpose of determining liability of the registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities, thesecurities: The undersigned registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:

(i)any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrants relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;

(ii)any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned registrants or used or referred to by the undersigned registrants;

(iii)the portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned registrants or their securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned registrants; and

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(i) Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;
(ii) Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned registrant;
(iii) The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant; and
(iv) Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned registrant to the purchaser.
(iv)any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned registrants to the purchaser.

(b) TheEach undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of thesuch registrant’s annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initialbona fideoffering thereof.

(c) The undersigned registrant hereby undertake that:

(1) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of theany registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, theeach registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the SECSecurities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim


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for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by theany registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of thesuch registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, theeach registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
(2) The

(d) Each undersigned registrant hereby undertakeundertakes to respond to requests for information that is incorporated by reference into the prospectus pursuant to ItemItems 4, 10(b), 11, or 13 of this form,FormS-4, within one (1) business day of receipt of such request, and to send the incorporated documents by first class mail or other equally prompt means. This includes information contained in documents filed subsequent to the effective date of the registration statement through the date of responding to the request.

(3) The

(e) Each undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to supply by means of a post-effective amendment all information concerning a transaction, and the company being acquired involved therein, that was not the subject of and included in the registration statement when it became effective.


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EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit

No.

Description

  3.1 (1)Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of Broadcom Corporation
  3.2 (2)Bylaws of Broadcom Corporation
  3.3 *Memorandum and Articles of Association of Broadcom Cayman Finance Limited
  3.4 (3)Constitution of Broadcom Limited
  3.5 (4)Amended and Restated Exempted Limited Partnership Agreement of Broadcom Cayman L.P. (f/k/a Safari Cayman L.P.), dated February 1, 2016
  3.6 (5)Voting Trust Agreement, dated as of February  1, 2016, by and among Broadcom Limited, Broadcom Cayman L.P. and Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee
  4.1 (6)Indenture, dated as of January  19, 2017, by and among theCo-Issuers, the Guarantors thereto and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee
  4.2Form of 2.375% Senior Note due 2020 (included in Exhibit 4.1)
  4.3Form of 3.000% Senior Note due 2022 (included in Exhibit 4.1)
  4.4Form of 3.625% Senior Note due 2024 (included in Exhibit 4.1)
  4.5Form of 3.875% Senior Note due 2027 (included in Exhibit 4.1)
  4.6 (7)Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of January  19, 2017, by and among theCo-Issuers, the Guarantors and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner  & Smith Incorporated and Barclays Capital Inc., as representatives of the several initial purchasers of the Notes
  4.7 (8)Indenture, dated as of October  17, 2017, by and among theCo-Issuers, the Guarantors thereto and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee
  4.8Form of 2.200% Senior Note due 2021 (included in Exhibit 4.7)
  4.9Form of 2.650% Senior Note due 2023 (included in Exhibit 4.7)
  4.10Form of 3.125% Senior Note due 2025 (included in Exhibit 4.7)
  4.11Form of 3.500% Senior Note due 2028 (included in Exhibit 4.7)
  4.12 (9)Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of October  17, 2017, by and among theCo-Issuers, the Guarantors and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner  & Smith Incorporated and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as representatives of the several initial purchasers of the Notes
  5.1 *Opinion of Latham & Watkins LLP
  5.2 *Opinion of Allen & Gledhill LLP
  5.3 *Opinion of Maples and Calder
  5.4*Opinion of Maples and Calder
12.1 *Statement of Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges
21 *List of Subsidiaries of Broadcom Limited, Broadcom Cayman L.P., Broadcom Cayman Finance Limited and Broadcom Corporation
23.1 *Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
23.2*Consent of KPMG LLP
23.3Consent of Latham & Watkins LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1 above)
23.4Consent of Allen & Gledhill LLP (included in Exhibit 5.2 above)

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Exhibit

No.

Description

23.5Consent of Maples and Calder (included in Exhibit 5.3 above)
23.6Consent of Maples and Calder (included in Exhibit 5.4 above)
24Powers of Attorney (included in the signature pages to this registration statement)
25 *Statement of Eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 of Wilmington Trust, National Association (FormT-1)
99.1 *Form of Letter of Transmittal with Respect to the Exchange Offer
99.2 *Form of Notice of Guaranteed Delivery with Respect to the Exchange Offer
99.3 *Form of Letter to DTC Participants Regarding the Exchange Offer
99.4 *Form of Letter to Beneficial Holders Regarding the Exchange Offer

(1)Filed as Exhibit 3.1 to Broadcom Corporation’s Current Report on Form8-K filed on February 2, 2016 and incorporated by reference herein.
(2)Filed as Exhibit 3.2 to Broadcom Corporation’s Current Report on Form8-K filed on February 2, 2016 and incorporated by reference herein.
(3)Filed as Exhibit 3.1 to Broadcom’s Current Report on Form8-K filed on February 2, 2016 and incorporated by reference herein.
(4)Filed as Exhibit 3.2 to Broadcom’s Current Report on Form8-K filed on February 2, 2016 and incorporated by reference herein.
(5)Filed as Exhibit 3.3 to Broadcom’s Current Report on Form8-K filed on February 2, 2016 and incorporated by reference herein.
(6)Filed as Exhibit 4.1 to Broadcom’s Current Report on Form8-K filed on January 20, 2017 and incorporated by reference herein.
(7)Filed as Exhibit 4.6 to Broadcom’s Current Report on Form8-K filed on January 20, 2017 and incorporated by reference herein.
(8)Filed as Exhibit 4.1 to Broadcom’s Current Report on Form8-K filed on October 17, 2017 and incorporated by reference herein.
(9)Filed as Exhibit 4.6 to Broadcom’s Current Report on Form8-K filed on October 17, 2017 and incorporated by reference herein.
*Filed herewith.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, of 1933, as amended, the undersigned registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Irvine,San Jose, State of California, on August 18, 2011.

this 21st day of December, 2017.

BROADCOM CORPORATION
By: /s/  Scott A. McGregor        Broadcom Corporation
Name:     Scott A. McGregor

By:

Title: 

        /s/ Hock E. Tan

        Hock E. Tan
President and Chief Executive Officer
Pursuant

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose individual signature appears below hereby authorizes and appoints Hock E. Tan and Thomas H. Krause, Jr., and each of them, with full power of substitution and resubstitution and full power to act without the other, as his or her true and lawfulattorney-in-fact and agent to act in his or her name, place and stead and to execute in the name and on behalf of each person, individually and in each capacity stated below, and to file any and all amendments to this Registration Statement, including any and all post-effective amendments and amendments thereto, and any registration statement relating to the same offering as this Registration Statement that is to be effective upon filing pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto saidattorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing, ratifying and confirming all that saidattorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them or their or his substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof. This power of attorney may be executed in counterparts.

In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

indicated as of December 21, 2017.

Name

  

Title

 

Date

Signature
Title
Date
*

Scott A. McGregor

/s/ Hock E. Tan

Hock E. Tan

  President and Chief Executive Officer and Member of the BoardDirector (principal executive officer) August 18, 2011December 21, 2017

/s/ Thomas H. Krause, Jr.

Thomas H. Krause, Jr.

Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary (principal financial officer and principal accounting officer)December 21, 2017

/s/ Ivy Pong

Ivy Pong

Director

December 21, 2017

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the undersigned registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of San Jose, State of California, on this 21st day of December, 2017.

         Broadcom Cayman Finance Limited

By:

        /s/ Thomas H. Krause, Jr.

         Thomas H. Krause, Jr.
*

Eric K. Brandt		 Executive Vice        Director

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose individual signature appears below hereby authorizes and appoints Hock E. Tan, Thomas H. Krause, Jr. and Mark Brazeal, and each of them, with full power of substitution and resubstitution and full power to act without the other, as his or her true and lawfulattorney-in-fact and agent to act in his or her name, place and stead and to execute in the name and on behalf of each person, individually and in each capacity stated below, and to file any and all amendments to this Registration Statement, including any and all post-effective amendments and amendments thereto, and any registration statement relating to the same offering as this Registration Statement that is to be effective upon filing pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto saidattorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing, ratifying and confirming all that saidattorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them or their or his substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof. This power of attorney may be executed in counterparts.

In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated as of December 21, 2017.

Name

Title

Date

/s/ Hock E. Tan

Hock E. Tan

Director (principal executive officer)December 21, 2017

/s/ Thomas H. Krause, Jr.

Thomas H. Krause, Jr.

Director (principal financial officer and principal accounting officer)December 21, 2017

/s/ Mark Brazeal

Mark Brazeal

DirectorDecember 21, 2017

/s/ Thomas H. Krause, Jr.

Thomas H. Krause, Jr.

Authorized representative in the United StatesDecember 21, 2017

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the undersigned registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of San Jose, State of California, on this 21st day of December, 2017.

      Broadcom Limited

By:

        /s/ Hock E. Tan

        Hock E. Tan
        President and Chief Executive Officer

      Broadcom Cayman L.P.,

      by its General Partner, Broadcom Limited

By:

        /s/ Hock E. Tan

        Hock E. Tan
        President and Chief Executive Officer

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose individual signature appears below hereby authorizes and appoints Hock E. Tan, Thomas H. Krause, Jr. and Mark Brazeal, and each of them, with full power of substitution and resubstitution and full power to act without the other, as his or her true and lawfulattorney-in-fact and agent to act in his or her name, place and stead and to execute in the name and on behalf of each person, individually and in each capacity stated below, and to file any and all amendments to this Registration Statement, including any and all post-effective amendments and amendments thereto, and any registration statement relating to the same offering as this Registration Statement that is to be effective upon filing pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto saidattorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing, ratifying and confirming all that saidattorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them or their or his substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof. This power of attorney may be executed in counterparts.

In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated as of December 21, 2017.

Name

Title

Date

/s/ Hock E. Tan

Hock E. Tan

President and Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer)December 21, 2017

/s/ Thomas H. Krause, Jr.

Thomas H. Krause, Jr.

Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer) August 18, 2011December 21, 2017

/s/ Kirsten M. Spears

Kirsten M. Spears

  
*

Robert L. Tirva		Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer August 18, 2011December 21, 2017
*

Nancy H. Handel		DirectorAugust 18, 2011
*

Eddy W. Hartenstein		DirectorAugust 18, 2011
*

Maria Klawe, Ph.D.		DirectorAugust 18, 2011
*

John E. Major

/s/ James V. Diller

James V. Diller

  Chairman of the Board of Directors August 18, 2011December 21, 2017

Name

  

Title

 

Date

*

William T. Morrow

/s/ Gayla J. Delly

Gayla J. Delly

  Director August 18, 2011December 21, 2017
*

Henry Samueli, Ph.D.

/s/ Lewis C. Eggebrecht

Lewis C. Eggebrecht

  Director August 18, 2011


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December 21, 2017
Signature
Title
Date
*

John A.C. Swainson

/s/ Kenneth Y. Hao

Kenneth Y. Hao

  Director August 18, 2011December 21, 2017
*

Robert E. Switz

/s/ Eddy W. Hartenstein

Eddy W. Hartenstein

  Director August 18, 2011December 21, 2017
*By:
/s/  Scott A. McGregor

Scott A. McGregor
Attorney-in-Fact


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INDEX TO EXHIBITS
     
Exhibit
 
Description
 
 4.1 Indenture dated as of November 1, 2010, by and among Broadcom Corporation and Wilmington FSB (Exhibit 4.1 to Broadcom Corporation’s Current Report onForm 8-K, filed November 1, 2010 is incorporated herein by reference)
 4.2 First Supplemental Indenture dated as of November 1, 2010, by and among Broadcom Corporation and Wilmington FSB (Exhibit 4.2 to Broadcom Corporation’s Current Report onForm 8-K, filed November 1, 2010 is incorporated herein by reference)
 4.3† Form of 1.500% Senior Notes due 2013
 4.4† Form of 2.375% Senior Notes due 2015
 5.1† Opinion of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
 10.1 Registration Rights Agreement dated as of November 1, 2010, by and among Broadcom Corporation and Merrill Lynch, and Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (as successor in interest to Banc of America Securities LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as the initial purchasers (Exhibit 4.3 to Broadcom Corporation’s Current Report onForm 8-K, filed November 1, 2010 is incorporated herein by reference)
 12.1† Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges
 23.1† Consent of KPMG LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
 23.2 Consent of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
 24.1† Power of Attorney
 25.1† Statement of Eligibility of Trustee onForm T-1
 99.1† Form of Letter of Transmittal
 99.2† Form of Notice of Guaranteed Delivery
 99.3† Form of Letter to Clients
 99.4† Form of Letter to Brokers, Dealers, Commercial Banks, Trust Companies and other Nominees
†

/s/ Check Kian Low

Check Kian Low

DirectorDecember 21, 2017
Previously filed.

/s/ Donald Macleod

Donald Macleod

DirectorDecember 21, 2017

/s/ Peter J. Marks

Peter J. Marks

DirectorDecember 21, 2017

/s/ Henry Samueli

Henry Samueli

DirectorDecember 21, 2017

/s/ Thomas H. Krause, Jr.

Thomas H. Krause, Jr.

Authorized Representative in the United StatesDecember 21, 2017