Acquisition, financing, purchase, holding, management, administration, encumbrance, sale and realization of participations of any form in companies of all kinds; provision of related consulting services; provision of services to group companies; exercise of all other functions associated with a holding company, in particular, but not exclusively, assumption of management, leadership, control and supervisory functions, assumption of executive functions, representation, financing, investment of capital of any kind and management of investments of any kind; development, creation, production, registration, brokerage, financing, granting, licensing, acquisition, holding, management, maintenance, use, rental, leasing, subleasing, encumbrance, sale or realization of any other type of securities, capital market instruments, participations, investments, licenses, patents, trademarks, know-how and other intangible assets or rights and movable assets; establishment, brokerage, financing, acquisition, holding, management, maintenance, use, rental, leasing, subleasing, construction, renovation, encumbrance, sale or realization of real estate of any kind; trading in assets and commodities of all kinds; taking out loans and credits for itself, subsidiaries, shareholders and third parties; granting loans and credits to subsidiaries, shareholders and third parties; assuming liability for loans and credits of subsidiaries, shareholders or third parties as guarantor or providing other guarantees of any kind, in particular by pledging, fiduciary transfer or providing other securities; entering into and assuming exchange obligations; making any other form of short-term, medium-term or long-term investments, borrowings, financings and financial transactions.