The company's purpose is to acquire, manage and dispose of participations in companies as well as to provide services related to the management, rental, brokerage, operation, maintenance and upkeep of real estate. The company may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire similar or related companies or merge with them, 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. It may acquire, manage, encumber and dispose of properties, intellectual property rights and licenses of all kinds. It may carry out financing in Switzerland and abroad for its own account or for the account of third parties, as well as provide guarantees and sureties for subsidiaries and third parties.