The company's purpose is to study, research, manufacture, sell and market biotechnological and synthetic or extractive products for pharmaceutical, veterinary, nutraceutical, dietary and cosmetic use. The company may hold interests in other companies and acquire, exploit, manage and dispose of commercial properties and intellectual property rights, open branches and secondary offices in Switzerland and abroad, and perform all acts implied by its commercial purpose or that may be suitable to promote its development or the development of the group companies. The company may provide direct or indirect financing to third parties, including companies in which it has a direct or indirect interest, its direct or indirect shareholders and companies in which such shareholders have a direct or indirect interest, either through loans or other financing, also within the framework of cash pooling agreements, and may provide guarantees of any kind for their obligations, also through encumbrances or fiduciary assignments of the company's assets or through guarantees of any kind, for consideration or not. The company is part of a group and may consider the interests of the group or individual group companies in pursuing its corporate purpose.