The company's purpose, both in Switzerland and abroad, is the acquisition, holding, management, administration and realization of all movable and immovable assets (excluding residential real estate in Switzerland), rights, securities and financial products; the provision of all advisory services, mandates, services and performances, as well as the exercise of all activities in the administrative, legal, accounting and financial, fiduciary and trust fields. To this end, the Company may provide administrative services and participate in industrial and commercial enterprises. It may also participate in the financing, in particular by providing guarantees and securities of all kinds, of other entities of the group to which the Company belongs in the interest of the said group, and establish branches or found subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad. The Company may also engage in all activities directly or indirectly related to the above-mentioned purpose.