The company's purpose is to acquire, manage, and dispose of interests in companies and enterprises; buy, sell, broker, and manage real estate as well as provide consulting and services in the real estate sector; plan and implement real estate projects both domestically and internationally; buy, manage, and sell securities, loans, guarantees, intellectual property rights, branches, and subsidiaries (in Switzerland, excluding transactions subject to the Federal Act on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Persons Abroad); make and manage investments of any kind, including but not limited to stocks, bonds, funds, and other financial instruments, both in Switzerland and abroad. The company may participate in other enterprises, acquire, exploit, manage, and dispose of business premises and intellectual property rights, establish and operate subsidiaries and branches both domestically and internationally, and perform all legal acts that may be associated with the company's purpose or that are suitable for promoting 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 shareholders are directly or indirectly involved, either through loans or other financing, and provide security of any kind for their liabilities, including pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether for a fee or not.