The company's purpose is to acquire and manage domestic and foreign participations of all kinds in the sense of a holding company, as well as to assume management, control and coordination functions. In addition, the company can provide consulting services of all kinds. The company can also conclude all transactions and enter into agreements that directly or indirectly serve the company's purpose or are directly related to it. The company can establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad. The company can acquire, encumber, sell and manage real estate, intellectual property and securities in Switzerland and abroad. The company can grant direct or indirect financing to third parties or companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved, as well as to direct or indirect shareholders or companies in which such parties are directly or indirectly involved, whether through loans and/or other financing, including within the framework of cash pooling agreements, whether against payment or not. The company can provide security of any kind for its own liabilities or liabilities of third parties, including through pledges, assignments, fiduciary transfers, guarantees of any kind or through offset obligations, whether against payment or not, even if such financing, security or guarantees are in the exclusive interest of third parties or companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved, or of direct or indirect shareholders or companies in which such parties are directly or indirectly involved.