The company's purpose is to create, sell, rent and manage real estate, as well as trade in properties, land and building materials. The company may participate in other companies, acquire, exploit, manage and sell land and intellectual property rights, establish subsidiaries and branches in Switzerland and abroad, and perform all legal acts that may be necessary or useful for the achievement of its purpose or the development of the company or its group companies. The company may grant direct or indirect financing to third parties, including companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved, its direct or indirect shareholders, and companies in which such parties are directly or indirectly involved, whether through loans or other financing, including within the framework of cash pooling agreements, and provide security of any kind for their liabilities, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether for consideration or not.