The company has the following purpose: acquisition, administration, development, sale of participations in all companies or enterprises, excluding any operation prohibited by the LFAIE. Furthermore, it may carry out, either on its own account or on behalf of third parties, all financial, commercial, movable or immovable transactions directly or indirectly related to its corporate purpose and may be interested, in any form, in all similar enterprises, in particular through the acquisition of participations in similar enterprises. The company may also establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad; grant loans or any other form of financing, and provide guarantees of any kind, for the direct or indirect benefit of its shareholders, companies of the same group or third parties, in particular in the form of guarantees, pledges or securities on the Company's assets.