The company's purpose is to provide services primarily in the financial sector to affiliated group companies. The company is part of the Pentair Group and may consider the interests of the Pentair Group in pursuing its corporate purpose. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries, take over representations, and engage in any business activities and conclude contracts of any kind that may be beneficial to the corporate purpose or are directly or indirectly related to it. It may acquire, hold, encumber, and sell real estate in Switzerland and abroad. As part of a group, the company may consider the interests of the group in pursuing its corporate purpose. In particular, 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 their direct and indirect subsidiaries, including within the framework of cash pooling agreements, and provide collateral of any kind for their liabilities, including by way of pledges or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether remunerated or not.