The company's purpose is to acquire participations on its own account and to manage and finance such participations, excluding all transactions prohibited by the Federal Act on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Persons Abroad (BewG). It may also conduct all commercial, financial, movable and immovable property transactions that are directly or indirectly related to its corporate purpose or are suitable to promote its realization. The company may grant direct or indirect financing to its direct or indirect subsidiaries and third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, provide collateral of any kind for its own liabilities and those of other companies (including direct or indirect shareholders of the company or companies in which these shareholders are directly or indirectly involved), including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers or assignments of the company's assets, or provide guarantees, enter into sureties or otherwise secure or guarantee obligations of the company or these other companies, whether remunerated or not. Furthermore, it may engage in liquidity balancing/concentration of net liquidity (cash pooling) with the aforementioned companies or join such an arrangement, including periodic account balancing. All of this may be done by the company without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest, excluding the company's profit motive, and assuming cluster risks.