The purpose of the company is to participate financially in other companies, to manage assets, shares, and credit titles. The Company may also invest in the acquisition and management of portfolios of patents or intellectual property rights of any nature or origin. The Company may borrow and lend, including - without limitation - the proceeds from loans and/or debt securities issuances, from/to its branches, subsidiaries, and/or from/to other companies or individuals, as well as within the framework of cash pooling agreements. The Company may also provide guarantees or bonds, transfer, encumber, create, and otherwise grant security over all of its assets or part of them, in order to secure its obligations and commitments and/or the obligations and commitments of other companies, and, in general, for its benefit and/or for the benefit of other companies or individuals. The company may develop projects, carry out any activity connected and related to the corporate purpose, and perform all commercial, financial, real estate, and securities operations connected and necessary for the corporate purposes; it may promote the establishment of other companies, assume representations of other companies, participate in companies, businesses, established and to be established, similar both in Switzerland and abroad; it may also carry out operations of purchase, sale, management of its own real estate, both in Switzerland and abroad.