The provision of assistance and consulting services for the analysis and solution of business problems and in matters of strategy, corporate organization and corporate governance; the activity of strategic and operational marketing and market research; research and development activities; the execution of operations aimed at acquiring, holding and managing participations and interests in other companies, entities, consortia, associations with or without legal personality: the technical, strategic, administrative and financial coordination of the entities in which it participates, the granting of financing in any form exclusively to the participating entities and the issuance of guarantees, sureties, pledges and mortgages, guarantees in general, including real guarantees, for obligations contracted by the participating entities; the acquisition, use, concession, in various forms, and transfer of intellectual and industrial property rights of any type and nature. The company may also, merely instrumentally to the achievement of its social object, and excluding activities reserved by law, carry out those securities, real estate and financial transactions that are necessary or useful for achieving the social object. In any case, any activity and performance in general that would fall among the activities inalienably reserved to professionals registered in special Registers or Lists is excluded. These latter activities will be exclusively carried out by authorized entities that the company will use from time to time and who will operate under their own personal and professional responsibility.