The company's purpose is to acquire, hold, manage, and dispose of participations and other assets, in particular the permanent management of participations in domestic and foreign companies of all kinds. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad. The company may acquire, hold, manage, encumber, utilize, and dispose of real property and intellectual property rights in Switzerland and abroad. The company may grant direct and indirect financings to its direct or indirect subsidiaries as well as to third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, provide securities of all kinds for its own liabilities and those of other persons (including direct and indirect shareholders of the company or companies in which these shareholders are directly or indirectly involved), including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers or assignments of shares in the company, or provide guarantees, enter into suretyships, or otherwise secure or guarantee the obligations of such other persons, whether for a consideration or not and also on preferential terms, without interest, excluding the profit-seeking nature of the company and assuming clumping risks. The company may engage in all commercial, financial, and other activities and enter into all transactions that appear suitable to promote the purpose of the company or that are related thereto.