The company's purpose, in Switzerland and abroad, is to provide all services, advice, management, and administration in the fields of business, management (particularly in strategic, project, and human resources management), operational assistance (particularly in planning, organization, research, execution, performance, control, and management information), and coordination; the acquisition, purchase, holding, management, and disposal, in any manner and form, of participations, both majority and minority, in any companies or other legal entities and/or legal structures, of any kind, Swiss or foreign, existing or to be created, regardless of their activities, with the exception of participations in real estate companies in Switzerland, as well as all transactions of purchase, subscription, disposal, leasing, or exchange of securities for properties used exclusively for commercial purposes in Switzerland; The company may also engage in any other activity directly or indirectly related to these purposes; it may, in particular, create branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire companies with identical or similar purposes, or merge with such companies, carry out all operations, and conclude all contracts aimed at developing and extending its purpose or directly or indirectly related thereto.