HV Finanzgesellschaft AG

Purchase and sale of participations of all kinds and their permanent management, consulting and promotion; acquisition, encumbrance, sale and management of real estate; exploitation of licenses and intellectual property rights; the company may grant loans or other financings to third parties, including its parent companies and their or its subsidiaries, and provide collateral of all kinds for liabilities of such other companies, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether against payment or not.