Six investment banks are set to share a fee pool of more than $260m after shareholders approved pharmaceutical giant Takeda’s $62bn acquisition of UK-listed Shire, in what will be the biggest payday for European M&A this year.

Evercore, JPMorgan and Nomura advised Takeda on the deal, which is the largest-ever overseas acquisition by a Japanese company. US investment banks Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley advised Shire.