The company's purpose is to provide strategy, risk, and consulting services. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries both domestically and abroad and may participate in other companies both domestically and abroad. The company may engage in any business and take any measures that appear suitable to promote the company's purpose or are directly or indirectly related thereto. The company may undertake and/or avail itself of financing of any kind for its own account or for the account of others, and in particular may enter into credit or security transactions (including the granting of pledges, security assignments and transfers, guarantees, indemnities, letters of comfort, compensation obligations and economic advantages related to such transactions), for a fee or free of charge, with, in favor of and/or in relation to liabilities of direct or indirect shareholders, subsidiaries and other affiliated companies, even if such financings, credit or security transactions are solely in the interest of direct or indirect shareholders and/or affiliated companies.