The company's purpose is to provide consulting and IT services, particularly in the areas of energy production, emission reduction and sustainability, as well as planning, execution, management and operation of projects, and portfolio management, particularly in the areas of energy production, emission reduction and sustainability. The company can develop, acquire, manage, transfer and exploit intellectual property rights, such as patents, trademarks, etc. The company can establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, and conduct all business directly or indirectly related to its purpose. The company can acquire, encumber, sell and manage real estate in Switzerland and abroad. The company can provide direct or indirect financing to its direct or indirect subsidiaries and third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, for its own liabilities and those of other companies (including direct or indirect shareholders of the company or companies in which these shareholders are directly or indirectly involved), provide securities of all kinds, including by way of pledges or fiduciary transfers or assignments of the company's assets, or provide guarantees, enter into suretyships or otherwise secure or guarantee the obligations of the company or these other companies, whether for consideration or not. Furthermore, it can operate a liquidity adjustment/concentration of net liquidity (cash pooling) with the aforementioned companies or join such a system, including periodic account balancing. The company can do all of this without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest, excluding the company's profit motive, and assuming lump-sum risks.