The purpose of the company is to provide advice and conduct research for legal and natural persons in matters of finance, organization, strategy and similar business concerns, as well as to hold and manage intellectual property rights; to provide accounting and administrative services, to take over and represent other companies, to manage and administer similar businesses, and in general to exercise all lawful activities of a financial or other nature that are beneficial or conducive to the purpose of the company, or compatible with it; to establish branches, secondary seats, subsidiaries, agencies, to acquire other companies and to participate in any form in businesses with a similar purpose both in Switzerland and abroad.