Provision of services in the fields of investment, management, trade and transport in connection with energy, in particular oil, renewable energies, alternative energies, electricity, gas, natural gas and all other petrochemical products or related raw materials; financing of companies and corporations of the group to which it belongs, as well as acquisition of participations, management and assumption of financial interests in other companies or corporations, with the exception of participations and real estate purchases in Switzerland in accordance with the BEHG; consulting and provision of administrative, technical, financial, economic or management services for other companies, corporations or individuals; acquisition, sale, management and use of movable and immovable property, including patents, trademarks, licenses, permits and other intellectual property rights; borrowing and lending of money, procurement of funds, including the issuance of bonds, debentures or other securities, as well as conclusion of all related contracts, excluding participations and real estate purchases in Switzerland under the BEHG; granting of guarantees and assumption of obligations, alone or jointly and severally or in any other capacity, with companies and corporations of the group to which it belongs, in their name and on behalf of third parties; trading in foreign currencies, securities, derivatives and all other assets in general, alone or in cooperation with third parties, as well as all transactions, in the broadest sense, that are directly or indirectly related to the aforementioned, excluding trading in securities and derivatives under the BEHG and BEHV.