The company's purpose is the acquisition, holding, administration, financing, and sale of participations in other companies in Switzerland or abroad. The company may grant third parties, including the shareholders of the company or of the companies in which they - directly or indirectly - participate, direct or indirect financing, either through loans or other financing methods, or through guarantees of any kind, with or without consideration. The Company may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, hold participations in other companies, represent third parties, as well as carry out any commercial activity and conclude any type of agreement that may be acts to promote the purpose of the Company, or that are directly or indirectly related to it. The company may acquire, hold, administer, encumber, sell real estate in Switzerland and abroad. Transactions prohibited by the Federal Law on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Persons Abroad (LAF) are excluded.