The company's purpose is to acquire, manage, broker and sell participations in domestic and foreign companies, as well as to conduct financial transactions of all kinds. It may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire or merge with similar or related companies, and enter into any business and conclude any contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or are directly or indirectly related to it. It may acquire, manage, encumber and sell real estate, copyrights, patents and licenses of all kinds.