The company's purpose is to acquire, hold, manage, finance, and dispose of interests in domestic and foreign companies of all kinds. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries at home and abroad, participate in other companies, found or take over such companies, or merge with them. It may conduct all business that is directly or indirectly related to its purpose or suitable to promote it. The company may acquire, encumber, dispose of, and manage real estate, immovable property, intellectual property rights, and other assets at home and abroad. It may conduct investment and lending business of any kind, grant guarantees, provide direct or indirect financing to affiliated companies or third parties, including their direct or indirect shareholders and their or their direct or indirect subsidiaries, and provide security for liabilities of such other companies in any form, including pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether for consideration or not. Furthermore, it may engage in liquidity balancing/concentration of net liquidity (cash pooling) with the aforementioned companies or join such an arrangement, including periodic account balancing (zero balancing), even under preferential conditions without interest or also excluding the company's profit-seeking nature.