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A vote by the majority of the shareholders will determine what happens.

If you don’t want to sell your shares, prepare to convince a majority of the shareholders otherwise.

This will be very hard since 45% of the company is owned by the people making the buyout offer.

There are drag along clauses or forced buyout clauses of public shares.

You should probably know these things before choosing to invest in the stock market.

The TL;DR of it is that your shares will be sold for you, and money will be deposited into your account. As a "common" shareholder, you don't get a choice in the matter (I mean, you can "vote", but common share votes aren't worth the email they're printed on).

This is one of many reasons I do not invest directly in stocks. I have enough b.s. to think about in my day to day life.

Index funds for the win, I guess.

You’re a common shareholder

You never know on HN. Perhaps their last name is Nordstrom.