The purpose of the company is to acquire, hold, manage, utilize, sell or trade direct or indirect participations in companies of all kinds as well as other assets in Switzerland and abroad, including all types of investment activities such as private equity financing and other financings, as well as providing consulting services and other services related to the aforementioned activities. The company may establish branches, both domestically and abroad, found subsidiaries, and acquire, hold, manage, encumber, utilize, and dispose of real estate and intellectual property rights. The company may grant direct or indirect financings to its direct or indirect subsidiaries as well as to third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries. It may also provide securities of all kinds for its own liabilities as well as 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 sureties, or otherwise secure or guarantee the obligations of these other companies, whether for a fee or not. Furthermore, it may engage in liquidity balancing/concentration of net liquidity (cash pooling) with the aforementioned companies or join such an arrangement, including periodic account balancing (balancing). This may also be done without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest, excluding the profit-seeking nature of the company, and assuming clustering risks. In addition, the company may engage in all commercial, financial, and other activities that appear suitable to promote the purpose of the company or are related thereto.