The company's purpose is to provide services in the field of economic and business consulting in Switzerland and abroad. The company may participate in other companies, acquire, exploit, manage and sell business premises, real estate and intellectual property rights, in particular licenses and patents, establish subsidiaries and branches in Switzerland and abroad, and perform all legal acts that may be necessary or suitable to promote the development of the company or that of group companies. The company may conduct investment and lending transactions of any kind, enter into guarantees, grant direct or indirect financing to group companies or third parties, including their direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, and provide security for liabilities of such companies, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether against payment or not. Furthermore, it may operate a liquidity balancing/concentration of net liquidity (cash pooling) with the aforementioned companies or join such a system, including periodic account balancing (zero balancing), also under preferential conditions without interest, excluding the company's profit motive and assuming cluster risks. The company may establish subsidiaries and branches in Switzerland and abroad.