The company's purpose is to acquire, hold, manage and dispose of participations and other assets, in particular the permanent management of participations in domestic and foreign companies of all kinds. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad. The company may acquire, hold, manage and dispose of real estate and intellectual property rights in Switzerland and abroad. The company may grant direct and indirect financing to its direct or indirect subsidiaries and to third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, provide security for its own liabilities and those of other persons (including direct and indirect shareholders of the company or companies in which these shareholders are directly or indirectly involved), including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers or assignments of shares of the company, or provide guarantees, enter into suretyships or otherwise secure or guarantee the obligations of these other persons, whether for consideration or not and also on preferential terms, without interest, to the exclusion of the company's profit motive and with the assumption of cluster risks. The company may engage in all commercial, financial and other activities and enter into transactions that appear to promote the purpose of the company or are related thereto.