Acquisition, holding and management of participations and financial investments; acquisition of real estate; financing; granting of loans or other financing to its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries; entering into security transactions of all kinds for affiliated companies and third parties, in particular in the form of guarantees, pledges, (global) assignments, security assignments, security transfers and indemnification agreements, even if these financing and security transactions are in the exclusive interest of its direct or indirect shareholders or their direct or indirect subsidiaries; conducting financial, investment, trust and related service transactions; acquisition, holding, sale and licensing of intellectual property rights.