The company's purpose is to participate in and advise companies, to purchase, sell and exploit patents, licenses, recipes, trademarks and other intellectual property rights, as well as to purchase, sell and manage securities and to conduct trust business and to carry out financial transactions of all kinds. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire or merge with similar or related companies, acquire, manage and sell real estate, and enter into all transactions and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or are directly or indirectly related to it.