The purpose of the company is: the purchase, sale, holding, administration and management of participations, directly or indirectly, in any company or commercial, financial, movable or immovable enterprise, it being specified that the company may only hold, in Switzerland, participations in real estate companies with exclusively commercial use. It may also carry out, either on its own account or on behalf of third parties, all financial, commercial, movable or immovable transactions directly or indirectly related to its corporate purpose and take an interest, in any form, in all similar enterprises, in particular by acquiring participations in similar enterprises. The company may also establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad.