The purpose of the company is to acquire, hold, manage, and dispose of participations of all kinds. The company may participate in other enterprises as well as acquire, utilize, manage, and dispose of real estate and intangible property rights, establish subsidiaries and branches both domestically and abroad, and in addition, perform all legal acts that the purpose of the company may entail or that are suitable to promote its development or that of group companies. The company may grant direct or indirect financing to third parties, including companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved, its direct or indirect shareholders, as well as companies in which such parties are directly or indirectly involved, either through loans or other financing, and provide securities of any kind for their liabilities, including through pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or through guarantees of any kind, whether for compensation or not.