The company's purpose is to acquire, manage, exploit and dispose of direct and indirect participations in, as well as to finance, companies in Switzerland and abroad, in particular in securities and similar financial instruments, including private equity financing and financing through the provision of mezzanine capital or debt capital. The company may acquire, hold, manage, administer, encumber, exploit, rent, lease, develop and dispose of foreign real estate. The company may engage in all activities related to the provision of these services and which are connected therewith and beneficial. It may establish branches and subsidiaries and participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, and may also conduct all commercial, financial and other legal transactions that are connected with the purpose of the company or are useful thereto. The company may grant loans and other direct or indirect financing to its direct and indirect subsidiaries and third parties, including its direct and indirect shareholders and the direct and indirect subsidiaries of these shareholders, in particular within the framework of cash pooling agreements, and may provide security for the obligations of these parties, also by pledging or transferring assets of the company in trust, or by guarantees of any kind, regardless of whether they are remunerated or not.