The acquisition, holding, management, and sale of shares in Swiss and foreign companies of all kinds, including shares in corporations and investments in trade, services, and industry in Switzerland and abroad, as well as their financing (for real estate companies in Switzerland, only those holding properties for exclusively commercial use); import-export and trade in all types of products, particularly goods in Switzerland and abroad; any activity in the field of intellectual property, particularly the acquisition, management, and transfer of copyrights, patents, licenses, and intellectual property rights; consulting in the areas of the creation, acquisition, merger, transformation, sale, and liquidation of companies, the development and management of projects, the financing of companies, and restructuring. The company may also engage in any other activity directly or indirectly related to these purposes; it may, in particular, create branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire companies with identical or similar purposes, or merge with such companies, carry out all operations, and conclude all contracts suitable for developing and extending its purpose or directly or indirectly related thereto.