"The board would have an idea of which way their majority...

"The board would have an idea of which way their majority shareholders are going to vote before wasting this time and money. If they were to get it wrong, they would not risk no merger, but getting booted off.So, this is all but a formality now. Which way we vote will have little to no bearing. "...err nope.
There are two thresholds which must be met for the merger to succeed, one is number of shares based and the other is SRN/HIN based so your claim that the OP vote was irrelevant is not true.

"I'm looking forward to this listing in the biggest economy in the world, which knows how to price assets for what they are. "..is that why Livent is being shorted around 18% and share price massively down? lol

"Reading that independent expert report makes this for a very exciting close to the year". Did we read the same report? Livent seems to have done not much in all the years they have been operating and their financials are aweful.