The company's purpose is to invest in assets of any kind, including participations and securities as well as other financial instruments. To take up and grant loans, in particular with regard to related persons and companies. The company can conclude all transactions and enter into agreements that directly or indirectly serve the company's purpose or are directly related to it. The company can provide financing to its direct or indirect parent company as well as to its direct or indirect subsidiaries and provide security of any kind for liabilities of such other companies, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether against payment or not. The company can establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad and acquire, hold, manage and sell real estate.