The company's purpose is the acquisition, holding, management, utilization, and disposal of direct or indirect interests in domestic and foreign companies. Furthermore, the company's purpose includes the acquisition, holding, management, leasing, utilization, and disposal of direct or indirect real estate, as well as trading in real estate domestically and abroad. The company may also participate in construction consortia. The company's purpose also includes the brokerage and financing of all related transactions, as well as activities of all kinds in the financing sector (providing financing on its own account or on behalf of others, and issuing guarantees and bonds for affiliated companies and third parties), in each case excluding activities that require authorization from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA). The company also manages its own assets and provides management and administrative services, making infrastructure available for compensation. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries domestically and abroad, participate in other domestic and foreign companies, and perform all legal acts and transactions that are directly or indirectly related to its purpose. The company may acquire, hold, manage, encumber, utilize, and dispose of real property and intellectual property rights domestically and abroad. It may also provide financing on its own account or on behalf of others, as well as issue guarantees, bonds, and securities of all kinds for affiliated companies and third parties, or secure or guarantee the obligations of these companies in other ways.