All activities related to the provision of financial advice, strategic advice, financial analysis, mergers and acquisitions, and analysis of financial instruments. The Company may carry out all commercial, financial, real estate (if the real estate held through participations or buildings are located in Switzerland, they may only have an exclusively commercial use), movable and conclude all contracts having a direct or indirect relationship with its purpose and promoting its development. It may also create branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad and acquire, hold, manage and dispose of real estate (in Switzerland, buildings with exclusively commercial use) and intellectual property. The Company may also acquire participations in other companies and acquire companies (with regard to companies holding real estate located in Switzerland, these must have an exclusively commercial use). The Company may also grant loans or any other form of financing to affiliated companies, as well as provide any kind of security, for the direct or indirect benefit of affiliated companies (or third parties), in particular in the form of guarantees, pledges or fiduciary transfers of the Company's assets.