This doesn't save common holders.
1- "the company" that has togive the approval is comprised of a few execs that are beholden to KKR,so they would grant approval
2- 42 percent owndership is planty to take it private because there won't be anybody with a combined big enough percentage to oppose, the other big players Tepper and such got private offering preffereds, so they won't vote no, they will be paid handsomely and don't care about commons
since you are reader, read about SPACs, 95 percent of them pay back their loans and fold, or are folded into private entities