The company's purposes are as follows: Providing management services to companies, in particular for business development, specific projects and start-up companies; Managing participations in companies as long-term investments, with the exception of participations that own real estate for residential purposes in Switzerland; The company can acquire, manage and transfer all rights to intellectual property such as patents, trademarks as well as technical and industrial knowledge; The company can acquire, manage and sell commercial or industrial properties within or outside Switzerland; The company can participate in group financing, in particular by granting loans to group companies or providing guarantees or other securities of any kind for their liabilities to third parties, even if these loans or securities are granted in the exclusive interest of other group companies and are provided free of charge.