The company's purpose is to operate one or more medical and/or paramedical clinics in Switzerland and/or abroad, particularly in the fields of general medicine and ophthalmology; to file, acquire, hold, and sell all intellectual property rights and to acquire, hold, and grant licenses; to grant loans and/or other direct or indirect financing (including, but not limited to, cash pooling agreements) to its direct and indirect subsidiaries and/or to third parties, including its direct and/or indirect partners as well as the direct and indirect subsidiaries of these partners; to provide guarantees of any kind, whether remunerated or not, and/or any other form of security, whether remunerated or not, to one or more partners, to one or more companies of the group to which the Company belongs and/or to one or more third parties in order to guarantee the commitments and/or obligations of one or more partners, of one or more companies of the group to which the Company belongs and/or of one or more third parties, provided that this is in the interest of the Company.