The company's purpose is to provide consulting, coaching and general services, in particular in the areas of General Management, Controlling and Finance, Legal and Tax, Human Resources, Sales and Marketing, as well as the purchase and sale of goods and the management of investments of all kinds. The company may also conduct any business that is suitable to promote or facilitate the development of the company and the achievement of its purpose. It may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, found subsidiaries, participate in related companies, acquire, hold, manage, encumber, utilize and dispose of real estate and intellectual property rights, and perform any other legal transactions that may be necessary to achieve the company's purpose, in particular to provide financing to affiliated and other companies, grant securities of any kind, or otherwise secure or guarantee obligations of these companies. The company may provide direct or indirect financing to its direct or indirect subsidiaries and third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, grant securities of any kind, including by way of pledges or fiduciary transfers or assignments of the company's assets, or provide guarantees, enter into joint and several liability or surety agreements, or otherwise secure or guarantee obligations of these other companies, whether for consideration or not. Furthermore, it may engage in cash pooling with the aforementioned companies or join such an arrangement, including periodic account balancing. This may also be done without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest, excluding the company's profit motive, and assuming cluster risks.