The company's purpose is to provide consulting services in all entrepreneurial, business and financial matters, including investment advice. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, and acquire, hold, manage, exploit and sell real estate and intellectual property rights in Switzerland and abroad, subject to the prior obtaining of any necessary permits. It may also carry out all commercial, financial and other activities that are connected with the company's purpose or are suitable for promoting it directly or indirectly. The company may grant loans or other financing to its direct and indirect parent companies and shareholders, as well as their direct or indirect group companies, and enter into security transactions of all kinds, in particular in the form of guarantees, pledges, global assignments, security transfers, security assignments and indemnification agreements for affiliated companies and third parties, even if these financing or security transactions are in their exclusive interest and are gratuitous.