The company's purpose is to provide management and business consulting services in Switzerland and abroad, develop strategies, structures, marketing and customer acquisition concepts, and open up new markets. The company can conduct trust transactions, acquire, develop, manage and exploit patents, licenses, manufacturing processes and equipment, as well as broker, finance and promote any kind of business. The company can establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire or merge with similar or related companies. Furthermore, the company can acquire, manage and sell industrial property rights, know-how, and intellectual property rights, as well as enter into any business and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or are directly or indirectly related to it. It can also acquire, hold, encumber and sell real estate in Switzerland and abroad, with the exception of real estate transactions prohibited by the Federal Act on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Persons Abroad (BewG). It can also provide financing for its own account or for third-party account, as well as grant guarantees and sureties for subsidiaries and third parties.