The purchase, sale, holding, administration and management of participations, directly or indirectly, in any company or commercial, financial, movable or immovable enterprise, in the sense of a holding company, it being specified that the company may only hold, in Switzerland, participations in real estate companies with exclusively commercial use. It may also carry out, either on its own account or on behalf of third parties, all financial, commercial, movable or immovable transactions directly or indirectly related to its corporate purpose and may be interested, in any form, in all similar enterprises, in particular by taking participations in similar enterprises. The company may also establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad. It may hold patents and any other intellectual property rights. The company may grant loans to its shareholders and third parties.