to provide financing and investment services, management and consulting, as well as administrative services to any company that may be or become an affiliated company. The company may act and exercise all the functions of a holding company in all its branches and coordinate and manage the policy, administration, planning, research, trade and all other activities of, and provide financing to, any affiliated company. The company may carry out all commercial, financial, real estate (if the real estate held through participations or buildings are located in Switzerland, they may only have an exclusively commercial use), movable and conclude all contracts having a direct or indirect connection with its purpose and promoting its development. It may, in addition, create branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad and acquire, hold, administer and dispose of real estate (in Switzerland, only buildings with an exclusively commercial use) and intellectual property. The company may also acquire participations in other companies and acquire companies with an identical or similar purpose (with regard to companies holding real estate located in Switzerland, these must have an exclusively commercial use), establish branches or form subsidiaries in Switzerland or abroad. The company may grant loans or any other form of financing to affiliated companies, as well as provide any kind of security, for the direct or indirect benefit of affiliated companies (or third parties), in particular in the form of guarantees, pledges or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets.