The company's purpose is to acquire, hold and dispose of participations in companies for itself and third parties in any legal form. The company can acquire, manage and dispose of real estate in any form. The company can conduct investment and lending transactions of any kind, as well as enter into guarantees, and can provide direct or indirect financing to group companies or third parties, including their direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, and can provide security for the liabilities of such other companies, including by way of pledges or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether against payment or not. Furthermore, it can operate a liquidity adjustment / concentration of net liquidity (cash pooling) with the aforementioned companies or third parties, or join such an arrangement, including periodic account settlement (zero balancing), also under preferential conditions without interest, excluding the company's profit motive and assuming cluster risks. Any asset management and investment activity is excluded. The company does not accept deposits from third parties and does not hold securities in its own name on behalf of its clients.