The trade in pharmaceutical products and raw materials for the manufacture of pharmaceutical products. The company may hold interests in other companies and acquire, operate, manage and dispose of real estate and intellectual property rights, establish subsidiaries and branches in Switzerland and abroad, and carry out all financial, commercial, movable or immovable transactions directly or indirectly related to its purpose or likely to promote its development or the development of the group's companies. Furthermore, the company may participate directly or indirectly in group financing operations, in particular by granting loans to its direct or indirect shareholders or to other group companies, or by providing security in the form of guarantees, sureties or other security to third parties, even if these loans or securities, which may be provided without fees or commission, are in the exclusive interest of its direct or indirect shareholders or other group companies.