all activities related to financial consulting, mandates for research, analysis, and assistance in implementing risk analysis solutions related to financial markets; the company may engage in any financial, commercial, and industrial activity directly or indirectly related to its purpose, establish branches or subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, participate in all enterprises having a direct or indirect relationship with its purpose, in Switzerland and abroad, acquire companies with an identical or similar purpose, or merge with such companies, engage in any commercial and financial activity, as well as carry out any operation and conclude all contracts suitable for developing its purpose or directly or indirectly related to it, in connection with its purpose, acquire and transfer rights and contracts, carry out, have carried out and subcontract expert opinions, research, studies, consulting and all other services, and acquire, hold and dispose of real estate in accordance with the Federal Act on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Foreigners (LFAIE).