The company's purpose is to broker transactions of all kinds that do not require authorization, to participate in commercial transactions, to trade in goods of all kinds, and to provide related services. The company may also enter into any business and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or that are directly or indirectly related to it. The company may participate in other companies, acquire, exploit, manage, and sell real estate and intellectual property rights, establish subsidiaries and branches in Switzerland and abroad, and perform all legal acts that may be necessary to achieve the company's purpose or to promote its development or that of group companies. Furthermore, the company may participate directly or indirectly in group financing, in particular by granting loans to its direct or indirect shareholders or other group companies, or by providing guarantees, sureties, or other securities of all kinds for their liabilities to third parties, even if these loans or securities are in the exclusive interest of its direct or indirect shareholders or other group companies and are provided free of charge.