The purpose of the company is to acquire, hold, manage, and trade in participations in domestic and foreign companies of all kinds. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries and other legal entities domestically and abroad or invest in such entities and conduct all business that is directly or indirectly related to its purpose. The company may acquire, encumber, dispose of, and manage real property and other tangible or intangible assets. The company may also grant direct or indirect financings (including as liquidity equalization/concentration of net liquidity (cash pooling)) to its direct or indirect subsidiaries as well as to third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders as well as their direct or indirect subsidiaries, and provide securities of all kinds for its own liabilities as well as those of other companies (including its direct or indirect subsidiaries as well as third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders as well as their direct or indirect subsidiaries), including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether for a fee or not. This may also be done on preferential terms without interest, excluding the company's profit-seeking and assuming clumping risks.