Acquisition, permanent management and disposal of participations in domestic and foreign companies of all kinds; may establish branches and subsidiaries, participate in other companies, found, acquire and merge with them, acquire, encumber, sell and manage real estate and intellectual property rights, provide financing for its own account or for the account of third parties, enter into guarantees and sureties for shareholders, subsidiaries and third parties, conduct financing transactions with third parties as well as with shareholders or with companies directly or indirectly connected to them, and provide securities, in particular in the form of guarantees, sureties, pledges, global assignments, security transfers or security assignments, for the obligations of its shareholders and of companies directly or indirectly connected to them.