The purchase, sale, marketing, distribution, manufacture, storage, import, representation, advertising, and export of pharmaceutical and parapharmaceutical products of any kind, biotechnological, chemical, basic products for the production of pharmaceutical preparations, as well as other related products, carried out directly or through third parties, representation in Switzerland and abroad of companies operating in the same sector. Research, development, patenting, registration, and economic exploitation of molecules, methodologies, processes, and therapies in the pharmaceutical sector, carried out directly or through third parties. The purchase, sale, and management of patents and trademarks. The execution of commercial, industrial, financial, or other operations deemed useful or functionally connected to the company's purpose and consulting activities in all the aforementioned fields. The holding of participations in other companies with similar purposes and the opening of branches both in Switzerland and abroad. The company may acquire, own, lease, and sell real estate in Switzerland and abroad; for real estate in Switzerland only in accordance with Swiss law.