The company's purpose is to acquire, hold, manage, and dispose of participations in companies of any kind, both domestically and abroad. Furthermore, the company aims to acquire, manage, and exploit intellectual property rights. The company may participate in other enterprises, as well as acquire, exploit, manage, and dispose of business premises and intellectual property rights. It may establish subsidiaries and branches both domestically and abroad, and additionally, it may perform all legal acts that the company's purpose may entail or that are suitable to promote its development or that of 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, as well as companies in which these are directly or indirectly involved, either through loans or other financing, including within the framework of cash pooling agreements, and may provide securities of any kind for their liabilities, including through pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or through guarantees of any kind, whether for compensation or not.