Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. is considering selling its symbolic Osaka headquarters building to help finance the 46 billion pound ($60 billion) deal to acquire Irish drugmaker Shire Plc., sources close to the matter said Friday.The building, located in Dosho in the city of Osaka, western Japan, stands on the same site where the company was founded in 1781. While Takeda has moved its headquarter functions to its Tokyo office, the building in Dosho, historically known as a town of medicine, is registered as its official headquarters.Takeda is expected to raise tens of billions of yen through the…READ FULL ARTICLE
