M&A Advisory Services

Objective

• Predict the likelihood of a public company being acquired over given time frames

Outcome

• AI models that will give the likelihood score (classification model) of a company being acquired, which goes as a crucial input to M&A deal analyses.

• The input to the model are companies’ fundamentals (example: growth, profitability, leverage, size, liquidity, valuation ratios), change in management, MD&A, analyst opinions, news analyses etc.

• Predictive solutions using fundamental + text analytics instead of traditional heuristic analyses.

• This can be delivered as prepackaged solution and/or through APIs (part of existing workflow).

Business Value

● Provide a rapid yet in-depth analysis of a target company’s value drivers and associated value creation opportunities and risks

H2O's AI and Data Approaches

• Classification techniques

• Operationalize large datasets

• Natural language processing and document analysis to analyze M&A and annual reports