The company's purpose is to engage, both in Switzerland and abroad, in the following activities: providing assistance and consulting services for the analysis and solution of business problems and in matters of strategy, corporate organization, and corporate governance; strategic and operational marketing activities and market research; research and development activities; carrying out operations aimed at acquiring, holding, and managing participations and interests in other companies, entities, consortia, associations with or without legal personality; coordinating the technical, strategic, administrative, and financial aspects of the entities in which it participates; granting financing in any form exclusively to the participating entities and issuing guarantees, sureties, pledges, and mortgages, as well as real guarantees, for obligations contracted by the participating entities; acquiring, using, granting, and transferring intellectual and industrial property rights of any type and nature. The company may also, solely as a means to achieve its corporate purpose and excluding activities reserved by law, carry out those securities, real estate, and financial transactions that are necessary or useful to achieve its corporate purpose. In any case, any activity or performance that would fall under the activities strictly reserved for professionals registered in specific registers or lists is excluded. These activities will be carried out exclusively by authorized entities that the company will use from time to time, and they will operate under their personal and professional responsibility.