The company's purpose is to acquire, hold, manage and sell participations. Furthermore, the company may engage in consulting, financing, investment and lending activities of any kind, enter into guarantees and provide securities in favor of third parties, as well as enter into any business and conclude contracts that serve to promote the company's purpose and are directly and indirectly related to it. It may establish branches abroad and in Switzerland, found subsidiaries, participate in related companies, acquire, hold, manage, encumber, utilize and sell intellectual property rights, and furthermore carry out all legal transactions that may be necessary to achieve the company's purpose, in particular to grant financing to affiliated and other companies, provide securities of any kind or otherwise secure or guarantee the obligations of these companies.