The company's purpose is the acquisition, holding, management and sale of participations in commercial, financial and industrial companies with their registered office in Switzerland and abroad. The company may open branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad; represent third parties, carry out activities and conclude agreements aimed at promoting the company's purpose, or which are directly or indirectly related to it. The company may acquire, manage and sell real estate in compliance with the applicable legislation. The company may grant, directly or indirectly, credits and/or other forms of financing to third parties or to companies in which it participates directly or indirectly, as well as to shareholders of companies in which they participate directly or indirectly, within the framework of cash pooling agreements, with or without consideration. The company may also provide guarantees or securities to secure its own obligations or the obligations of the aforementioned entities, also by way of pledge, assignment, transfer by way of security and guarantees of any kind, with or without consideration. Such financing and guarantees may also be granted if solely in the interest of third parties, or of companies directly or indirectly participated by the Company, as well as their direct or indirect shareholders, or of companies in which they hold a direct or indirect participation.