The company's purpose is to hold, manage, administer, and dispose of participations, as well as to provide services to family members and affiliated companies. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries, both domestically and abroad, and may participate in other companies, both domestically and abroad. The company may acquire, hold, manage, encumber, utilize, and dispose of real property and intellectual property rights, both domestically and abroad, as well as finance other companies. The company may grant direct or indirect financings to its direct or indirect subsidiaries, as well as to third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries. The company may provide securities of all kinds for its own obligations or those of other companies (including direct or indirect shareholders of the company or companies in which these shareholders are directly or indirectly involved), including pledges on or fiduciary transfers or assignments of the company's assets, or provide guarantees, enter into sureties, or otherwise secure or guarantee obligations of the company or these other companies, whether for a fee or not. Furthermore, the company may engage in liquidity equalization/concentration of net liquidity (cash pooling) with the aforementioned companies or join such arrangements, including periodic account balancing (balancing). The company may do all of this without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest, excluding the profit-seeking nature of the company, and assuming clumping risks. The company may engage in all commercial, financial, and other activities that appear suitable to promote the company's purpose or are related thereto. In pursuing its corporate purpose, the company aims to create long-term, sustainable value.