The company's purpose is to acquire and manage participations in companies in Switzerland and abroad, as well as to finance them. The company can acquire, manage, provide and sell licenses, patents and other intangible assets. It can carry out financing transactions for itself and for third parties and provide all types of guarantees. The company can engage in any commercial, financial or other activity that is directly or indirectly related to its purpose or benefits its interests. The company can establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, as well as acquire, hold, manage, encumber, utilize and sell properties or other real rights to properties in Switzerland and abroad. The company can grant loans or other financing to its direct or indirect subsidiaries and provide security of any kind for liabilities of such other companies, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether against payment or not.