The company's purpose is to import and export pharmaceutical products and ingredients, including under the name LUX and/or LUX PHARMA, to conduct research and development in the pharmaceutical field, and to provide administrative services. The company may establish subsidiaries and branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire, hold, manage, encumber and dispose of intellectual property rights, acquire, encumber and dispose of real estate, and enter into all transactions and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or its affiliated companies, or that are directly or indirectly related thereto. The company may conduct financing transactions and provide security for obligations of its shareholders or affiliated companies, in particular in the form of guarantees, pledges, global assignments and mortgages.