The company's purpose is to acquire, hold and manage assets, participations, concessions and other rights that involve the direct or indirect management of companies or real estate. The company may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire similar or related companies or merge with them, and enter into all transactions and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or are directly or indirectly related to it. It may acquire, manage, encumber and sell properties, intellectual property rights and licenses of all kinds.