The company's purpose is to acquire, hold, manage, dispose of, and finance investments in domestic and foreign companies. The company may enter into all commercial, contractual, and financial transactions suitable for promoting the company's purpose or directly or indirectly related thereto. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries domestically and abroad and invest in or acquire other domestic and foreign companies. The company may acquire, hold, and dispose of intellectual property rights and licenses of any kind. The company may acquire, manage, and dispose of real estate. The company may also provide financing on its own account or for the account of others and grant direct or indirect financing to its direct or indirect subsidiaries and to third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries. It may provide securities of any kind for its own liabilities and those of other companies (including direct or indirect shareholders of the company or companies in which these shareholders are directly or indirectly involved), including pledges on or fiduciary transfers or assignments of the company's assets, or provide guarantees, enter into suretyships, or secure or guarantee the obligations of these other companies, whether for a fee or not. Furthermore, it may engage in liquidity equalization/concentration of net liquidity (cash pooling) with the aforementioned companies or join such arrangements, including periodic account balancing (balancing). This may also be done on preferential terms without interest, excluding the company's profit-seeking nature, and assuming clumping risks.