Acquisition, sale and management of participations in companies of all kinds at home and abroad, as well as the execution of financial transactions. The company may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies at home and abroad, acquire similar or related companies or merge with them, and enter into all transactions and conclude 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 dispose of real estate, intellectual property rights and licenses of all kinds.