The purpose of the company is: The development, distribution, sale and deployment of any commercial, technical and financial activity related to the products and services of the group in Europe and worldwide; The establishment for Europe and the world of the sales and marketing strategy for the group's existing and future business and products, and the development of new products and services; The acquisition, holding, management and sale of assets and participations, with the exception of participations in companies with a real estate purpose within the meaning of the LFAIE; The management and holding of property rights and/or licenses for patents, trademarks, know-how and any other intellectual property rights; The granting of loans or any other form of financing to companies of the same group, as well as securities of all kinds, for the direct or indirect benefit of companies of the same group or third parties, in particular in the form of guarantees, pledges or securities on the assets of the company; Services of all kinds, in particular commercial, financial, administrative and legal; All operations directly or indirectly related to its purpose or likely to promote its development. The Company is authorized to open branches and subsidiaries, both national and foreign, to take over representations and to carry out any commercial activity and conclude any contract of any kind likely to promote the purpose of the Company or which has a direct or indirect link with this purpose. The Company may acquire, hold, manage, encumber and sell domestic and foreign real estate, with the exception of transactions prohibited by the Federal Law on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Persons Abroad (LFAIE). The Company is part of a group and, as such, may take into account the interests of the group in pursuing its purpose. The Company may grant loans and other direct or indirect financing to its direct or indirect subsidiaries and to third parties, including its direct or indirect partners as well as the direct or indirect subsidiaries of such partners, including in particular within the framework of centralized cash management agreements (including periodic account netting), and constitute securities of all kinds for the benefit of these parties, including by means of pledge rights or transfers of assets of the Company in a fiduciary capacity or through guarantees of all kinds. This also without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest, excluding the search for profit of the Company and/or by taking concentration risks.