The company's purpose in Switzerland and abroad is: - the purchase, sale, holding, valuation, administration, management and brokerage of all movable assets, including participations in all industrial and commercial companies; - any service provision in the field of movable and immovable financing, management and development of commercial and real estate projects; - the holding and use of patents, licenses, trademarks, know-how and any other kind of intellectual property rights. - the purchase, sale, holding, brokerage of all real estate, excluding operations prohibited by the Federal Act on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Foreigners (LFAIE). The company may also: - carry out all financing operations in favor of affiliated companies and enterprises, participate in financing and similar contracts and grant guarantees in favor of affiliated companies or enterprises as well as third parties; - establish branches or found subsidiaries, whether in Switzerland or abroad; - conclude transactions and carry out all commercial operations to promote its purpose or which directly or indirectly fall within the scope of its activities.