The company's purpose is to acquire, manage and dispose of participations in companies in Switzerland and abroad. The company can acquire, develop, encumber, sell and manage licenses, patents and other intangible assets as well as real estate, and conduct all business that is directly or indirectly related to its purpose. The company can conduct investment and lending transactions of any kind, enter into guarantees, grant direct or indirect financing to group companies or third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, and provide collateral of any kind for 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 join such a system, including periodic account settlement (zero balancing), also under preferential conditions without interest, excluding the company's profit motive and assuming cluster risks. The company can establish subsidiaries and branches in Switzerland and abroad.