The company's purpose is the wholesale, sale and marketing of medicines and pharmaceutical products, as well as other related regulatory, import and export, marketing and corporate services in this field. It can establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, set up subsidiaries, participate in other companies, and acquire, hold, manage, encumber, utilize and sell real estate and intellectual property rights. The company can also carry out all commercial, financial and other activities that appear suitable to promote the purpose of the company or are related to it. The company is part of a group of companies and can take into account the interests of this group in pursuing its corporate purpose. In particular, the company can grant loans and other direct or indirect financing to its direct and indirect subsidiaries and third parties, including its direct and indirect shareholders and their direct and indirect subsidiaries, including within the framework of cash pooling agreements, and provide security of all kinds for their liabilities, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether remunerated or not.