The company's purpose is to acquire, manage and exploit participations in domestic and foreign companies, as well as to provide related consulting, financing, management, planning and coordination services. The company may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, assume representations and conduct all business, incur obligations and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the company's purpose and the development of the company, or that are directly or indirectly related thereto. The company may also grant 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, without adequate consideration, and provide security for its own liabilities and those of other companies (including its direct or indirect subsidiaries and third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries) of any kind, including by way of pledges or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether remunerated or not. The company may acquire, hold, manage, encumber and dispose of real estate (excluding business subject to the Swiss Federal Property Law) and intellectual property rights in Switzerland and abroad.