The company's purpose is to participate in other companies. The company also aims to acquire, encumber, sell, manage, rent, broker and hold real estate and properties in Switzerland and abroad. Furthermore, it aims to develop and realize construction projects on behalf of third parties and on its own account, in particular as a general contractor. The company can establish its own companies or participate in existing ones, finance and promote them. The company can grant loans or other financing to its direct and indirect parent companies as well as their direct and indirect subsidiaries, against payment or free of charge, and provide security of any kind for the liabilities of such other companies, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfer of the company's assets or by guarantees of any kind. The company can undertake anything that, in the opinion of its management, promotes the purpose of the company or serves the use of its available resources.