The company's purpose is to conduct research and development, manufacture and distribute products in the fields of pharmacy, biology and diagnostics, as well as provide related services. In this context, it can also provide services and consulting to domestic and foreign customers, trade in goods or produce them, create concepts, perform work, exchange electronic data with persons directly or indirectly related to the work. The company can establish subsidiaries and branches in and outside Switzerland and participate in other companies. The company can acquire, hold and sell real estate and intellectual property rights. The company can also engage in all commercial, financial and other activities that are directly or indirectly related to the company's purpose. The company can provide direct or indirect financing 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 such parties are directly or indirectly involved, whether through loans and/or other financing, with or without consideration. The company can provide security of any kind for its own liabilities or the liabilities of the aforementioned persons, including through pledges, assignments, fiduciary transfers, guarantees of any kind or through offset obligations, with or without consideration, even if such financing, security or guarantees are in the exclusive interest of third parties or companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved, or of direct or indirect shareholders or companies in which such parties are directly or indirectly involved.