The company's purpose is to acquire, own, manage, sell, trade, and finance participations in other companies. The company's purpose is to buy, sell, rent, and manage real estate in Switzerland. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries, acquire participations in other companies, manage, hold, and sell such participations, and conduct all business directly or indirectly related to the aforementioned purposes. The company may freely invest its own funds within the framework of the legal provisions, resell such investments, and acquire, encumber, manage, and sell real estate domestically. It may also provide financing on its own or another's account and provide guarantees and sureties for subsidiaries and third parties. The company may grant direct or indirect financing to third parties or companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved, as well as to direct or indirect shareholders or companies in which such parties are directly or indirectly involved, either through loans and/or other financing, including under cash pooling agreements. The company may provide security of any kind for its own liabilities or the liabilities of the aforementioned persons, including through pledges, assignments, fiduciary transfers, guarantees of any kind, or through compensation obligations, with or without consideration, even if such financing, security, or guarantees are solely in the interest of third parties or companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved, or of direct or indirect shareholders or companies in which such parties are directly or indirectly involved.