The company's purpose is the development, realization, and exploitation of real estate and construction projects of all kinds, the management, leasing, and brokerage of real estate, the planning and realization of new constructions and transformations, notably as a total or general enterprise on behalf of third parties, project management, as well as consulting and assistance in matters of planning, environment, and financing, with the exception of operations prohibited by the LFAIE. The company may, with the exception of operations prohibited by the LFAIE, create branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad and acquire, hold, manage, operate, and sell shares in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire, hold, manage, operate, and sell real estate and intellectual property rights in Switzerland and abroad, and carry out all commercial, financial, and other activities that seem likely to promote the company's purpose or are related to it. The company may grant direct or indirect financing to its direct or indirect subsidiaries, as well as to third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, for their own commitments as well as for those of other companies (including direct or indirect shareholders of the company or companies in which these shareholders have a direct or indirect stake). It may issue securities of all kinds, including by means of pledges on the company's assets or fiduciary transfers or assignments of the company's assets, issue guarantees, act as a guarantor, or guarantee in any other way the obligations of the company or these other companies, for a fee or free of charge. In addition, it may operate or associate with the companies mentioned above cash pooling systems / cash centralization, including periodic balance adjustments (balancing). The company may also do all this without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest, excluding the company's profit-making purpose, and accepting a concentration of risks.