The company's purpose is to acquire, manage and exploit participations in financial, commercial and industrial companies, their financing, the investment and management of capital as well as related consulting. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies of any kind, take over representations and enter into all transactions and conclude contracts that may be suitable to promote the purpose of the company; or that are directly or indirectly related to it. The company may provide financing for its own account or for the account of third parties. It may grant direct or indirect financing to third parties or companies in which it has a direct or indirect interest, as well as to direct or indirect shareholders or companies in which such parties have a direct or indirect interest, whether through loans and/or other financing, including within the framework of cash pooling agreements. The company may provide collateral of any kind for its own liabilities or the liabilities of the aforementioned persons, including through pledges, assignments, fiduciary transfers, guarantees of any kind or through offset obligations, whether against payment or not, even if such financing, collateral or guarantees are in the exclusive interest of third parties or companies in which it has a direct or indirect interest, or of direct or indirect shareholders or companies in which such parties have a direct or indirect interest. The company may acquire, hold, manage or sell any type of debt or securities, within Switzerland or abroad.