The company's purpose is to acquire, hold, manage, and dispose of participations in companies in Switzerland and abroad. The company may conduct investment and lending transactions of any kind, enter into guarantees, grant direct or indirect financing to affiliated companies or third parties, including their direct shareholders as well as their or their direct or indirect subsidiaries, and provide security for liabilities of such other companies in any form, including by pledging or fiduciary transfer of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether for a fee or not. Furthermore, the company may engage in liquidity balancing / net liquidity concentration (cash pooling) with the aforementioned companies or join such arrangements, including periodic account balancing (zero balancing), even under deferred terms without interest, excluding the company's profit motive and assuming clustering risks. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, invest in, acquire, or establish businesses of any kind in Switzerland and abroad, buy, lease, and sell real estate, acquire and exploit industrial property rights and know-how, and conduct all business and enter into all contracts that are suitable to promote the company's purpose or are directly or indirectly related thereto.