Take­da fam­i­ly preps for a last-stand vote against Shire buy­out; Eli Lil­ly re­port­ed­ly shop­ping drug port­fo­lio in Chi­na

Ku­nio Take­da’s last shot at de­rail­ing Take­da’s $62 bil­lion takeover of Shire will take place dur­ing the big share­hold­er vote com­ing up on De­cem­ber 5. The se­nior Take­da fam­i­ly mem­ber isn’t talk­ing to the Fi­nan­cial Times this week, but he’s made his po­si­tion known to oth­ers. “(H)e nev­er imag­ined that the com­pa­ny would pur­sue such a rad­i­cal form of glob­al­i­sa­tion,” one per­son close to Take­da told the FT. “He has re­cent­ly ex­pressed his views that he is against this deal.” It’s al­so un­like­ly he’ll have any­thing close to the votes need­ed to stop the ac­qui­si­tion, which gives CEO Christophe We­ber the glob­al op­er­a­tion he want­ed to cre­ate.

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