The company's purpose is to grant loans or guarantees and to participate, in any form, in commercial, financial, industrial, and real estate companies, in the sense of a holding company; to carry out financial and administrative operations and any activity related to the company's purpose for its own account or for that of third parties. It may perform all acts and exercise all activities that are directly or indirectly related to its purpose. It may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad and may hold participations in other companies. It may acquire, hold, encumber limited real rights, administer and alienate properties in Switzerland (for exclusively commercial use only) and abroad. It may grant loans or any other form of financing to affiliated companies or third parties, as well as provide any type of security, for the direct or indirect benefit of affiliated companies or third parties.