The company's purpose is to participate in and advise businesses, to buy, sell and exploit patents, licenses, recipes, trademarks and other intellectual property rights, as well as to buy, sell and manage securities and to conduct trust transactions of all kinds. The company may also conduct financing transactions with third parties as well as with companies directly or indirectly connected to it, and may also provide collateral of all kinds for liabilities of directly or indirectly connected companies, in particular parent, sister and subsidiary companies, whether remunerated or not, in particular in the form of guarantees, pledges, global assignments, security agreements or security assignments. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other businesses in Switzerland and abroad, acquire or merge with similar or related businesses, acquire, manage and sell real estate, and enter into any business and conclude any contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or are directly or indirectly related to it.