The purpose of the company is: to acquire and manage participations in companies or corporations of all kinds, industrial, commercial and financial, in Switzerland and abroad; to carry out financing, control and consulting activities in favor of the companies and corporations in which it participates and to provide guarantees for them; in general, to carry out all commercial, financial, movable and immovable transactions that are directly or indirectly related to its purposes; furthermore, the company may grant loans and other forms of financing to other group companies (including shareholder companies (direct or indirect) of the company and companies directly or indirectly held by them), as well as provide guarantees in favor of these same companies for all kinds of commitments, in particular in the form of surety, guarantees, pledges or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets.