The purchase, sale, holding, administration and management of shareholdings, directly or indirectly, in any commercial, financial, securities or real estate company, it being specified that the company may only hold, in Switzerland, shareholdings in real estate companies with exclusively commercial purposes; the purchase, holding, management and sale of securities and other financial instruments for proprietary trading exclusively; the provision of services and advice in legal, tax, fiduciary, financial matters as well as in auditing, accounting, business management, human resources, marketing and communication. It may also carry out, either for its own account or for the account of third parties, all financial, commercial, securities or real estate operations directly or indirectly related to its corporate purpose and be interested, in all forms, in all similar enterprises, notably by taking shareholdings in similar enterprises. The company may also establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad.