The company's purpose is to participate in financing, trading, and industrial companies as well as real estate and construction companies in Switzerland and abroad, to trade in securities and to carry out financial transactions of all kinds in Switzerland and abroad for its own account or for the account of third parties. The company may acquire, hold, manage, exploit and transfer real estate and intellectual property rights in Switzerland and abroad, and establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad. The company may participate in group financings, in particular by granting loans to its direct or indirect shareholders or other group companies or by providing guarantees or other securities for their liabilities to third parties, even if these loans or securities are in the exclusive interest of its direct or indirect shareholders or other group companies or are granted free of charge. Furthermore, the company may conduct any business that appears to promote the purpose of the company or is connected therewith.