to provide consulting and investment structuring services, excluding financial services, to Swiss and foreign entities. The company may carry out any commercial and financial transaction, directly or indirectly related to its purpose. It may register branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, as well as acquire, hold, manage and sell real estate and participations in companies of any kind, in Switzerland or abroad (if the real estate held through participations or the real estate is located in Switzerland, it may only have an exclusively commercial use). The company may grant loans or any other form of financing to companies of the same group, as well as provide any kind of security, for the direct or indirect benefit of companies of the same group or third parties, in particular in the form of guarantees, pledges or securities on the Company's assets.