The purpose of the company is to provide financial and strategic advisory services of all kinds in the areas of capital procurement, debt and equity financing, private equity, buying and selling companies and real estate, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, and succession planning, as well as all other transactions arising therefrom or related thereto. The company may advise other companies, provide them with know-how, management services and the like, assume representations, and enter into all transactions and conclude contracts that may be suitable to promote the purpose of the company or that are directly or indirectly related thereto. It may provide financing for its own account or for the account of third parties, as well as guarantees and sureties for affiliated companies and third parties. It may acquire, hold and dispose of intellectual property rights, grant licenses, acquire, hold and dispose of participations in other companies, establish subsidiaries and branches in Switzerland and abroad, and acquire, hold and dispose of real estate.