The company's purpose is to provide financial and strategic consulting with a focus on mergers, demergers, acquisitions or sales of companies, as well as foreign, hybrid and equity capital financing in the private and capital markets, and related transactions. Furthermore, the company's purpose is to manage real estate and related transactions, as well as activities in retail trade. The company may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, enter into cooperations, assume board of directors' mandates, and enter into all transactions and conclude contracts that may be suitable to promote the company's purpose or that are directly or indirectly related thereto. It may also provide financing for its own account or for the account of third parties, as well as grant guarantees and sureties for affiliated companies and third parties.