The company's purpose is to acquire, manage, and dispose of domestic and foreign companies of all kinds, to provide services to these portfolio companies, to provide consulting services to companies and individuals domestically and abroad, and to handle all transactions directly or indirectly related to this purpose. The company may acquire rights and patents of all kinds, make the infrastructure it creates or maintains available to third parties, promote, support, or itself conduct events of all kinds that are related to its purpose, establish branches and subsidiaries domestically and abroad, and invest in other companies domestically and abroad, as well as conduct all transactions that are directly or indirectly related to its purpose. The company may acquire, encumber, dispose of, and manage real property domestically and abroad. It may also arrange financing for its own account or for the account of others and provide security for affiliated companies and third parties. The company may grant loans or other financing of all kinds to its direct or indirect shareholders, its direct or indirect parent companies, and their or their direct or indirect subsidiaries, participate in such financing, and provide security of all kinds for liabilities of such other companies, in particular in the form of guarantees, pledges, assignments, security transfers, security assignments, and hold harmless agreements, whether for a fee or not. The company may also act exclusively in the interest of its direct or indirect shareholders, the group, or individual group companies for this purpose.