can senior lenders be shareholders as well

Can the senior lenders be shareholders as well, if they can, it would be too easy for the senior lenders to get the majority(or even 75% as mentioned before) approval for the deal. It costs less than 50M to collect half of the CNP shares in the market. If that's the case, I would sell and walk away. Otherwise, I would hold and have my say, I believe most of the shareholders except the senior lenders are not in favor of the deal at all.