The company's purpose is to provide advice to private and corporate clients on legal and financial matters, strategic business consulting, and the provision of asset management services for persons economically or familially connected to it. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire or merge with similar or related companies. The company may acquire, encumber, manage, and utilize or sell intellectual property rights, securities, and real estate in Switzerland and abroad, 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. Furthermore, the company may provide financing for its own account or for the account of third parties, take out loans and grant them, as well as provide guarantees of any kind and other securities for liabilities of affiliated companies and third parties, with or without consideration.