The company's purpose is to provide consulting services of all kinds and to hold and manage investments of all kinds. The company may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies of any kind, take over representations and enter into all transactions and conclude contracts that may be suitable to promote the purpose of the company; or that are directly or indirectly related to it. The company may also engage in all commercial, financial and other activities that are directly or indirectly related to the purpose of the company. The company may acquire, hold, manage or sell any kind of debt or securities, intellectual property rights and real estate in Switzerland or abroad. The company may provide financial resources to third parties or companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved, as well as to direct or indirect shareholders or companies in which they are directly or indirectly involved, directly or indirectly, in the form of loans and/or other financing. The company may provide collateral of any kind for its own liabilities or the liabilities of the aforementioned persons, whether through pledges, assignments, security transfers, guarantees of any kind, as well as through paid or unpaid offset obligations, even if these financings, collateral or guarantees are exclusively in the interests of third parties or companies in which the company is directly or indirectly involved or in the interests of direct or indirect shareholders or companies. It may also enter into financing agreements for its own account or for the account of third parties, as well as guarantee, surety and pledge transactions for affiliated companies and third parties. The company may acquire, lease, rent, encumber and sell real estate in Switzerland and abroad.