Purchase and sale, trade, development as well as rental, leasing or licensing of goods and intangible assets, including tools, operating equipment, machines, vehicles, production processes, developments, patents, trademarks and other rights; may finance investments in or the purchase of real estate or goods and intangible assets of all kinds for the benefit of companies of the same group or third parties and provide all related services; may grant direct or indirect financing to other companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved, its direct or indirect shareholders, companies in which such companies are directly or indirectly involved, or third parties, whether by way of loans or other financing, and provide security of any kind for its own or third-party liabilities, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers or assignments of the company's assets, guarantees of any kind or sureties, or otherwise secure or guarantee the obligations of other companies, whether for consideration or not; participations; acquisition, encumbrance, management, rental, leasing or exploitation in any other way of real estate.