The company's purpose is to acquire and manage participations in the financial sector, provide financial services of all kinds; advise private and public companies, in particular with regard to operational organization, financing, and financial planning. The company also assumes the planning, establishment, and management of companies, as well as the execution of collection and trust transactions, the exploitation of patents, licenses, and trademarks. The company may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, acquire, hold, and sell real estate. The company may enter into all transactions and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or that are directly or indirectly related to it. The company may grant direct or indirect financing to third parties, including direct or indirect parent and sister companies, by means of loans or otherwise, or provide securities of any kind, whether against payment or free of charge and regardless of whether the financing or the provision of securities is in the interest of the company or exclusively in the interest of third parties.