The company's purpose is to acquire, hold, manage, and dispose of interests in other companies, both domestically and abroad, as well as to provide services related thereto. The company may participate in other enterprises, acquire, exploit, manage, and dispose of real property and intellectual property rights, establish subsidiaries and branches, both domestically and abroad, and, in addition, perform all legal acts that the company's purpose may entail or that are suitable to promote its development or that of group companies. The company may grant direct or indirect financing to third parties, including companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved, its direct or indirect shareholders, and companies in which such parties are directly or indirectly involved, either through loans or other financing, including within the framework of cash pooling agreements, and may also provide securities of any kind for their liabilities, including through pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or through guarantees of any kind, whether for a fee or not.