The company's purpose is to acquire and manage participations in domestic and foreign companies of all kinds in the sense of a holding company, as well as to assume management, control and coordination functions. The company can conduct commercial and service transactions of all kinds, acquire, exploit, manage and sell intellectual property rights and securities of all kinds. The company can also carry out all commercial, financial and other activities that are directly or indirectly related to the company's purpose. The company can establish subsidiaries and branch offices. The company can acquire, hold and sell real estate. The company can grant direct or indirect financing to third parties or companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved, as well as to direct or indirect shareholders or companies in which such shareholders are directly or indirectly involved, whether through loans and/or other financing, including within the framework of cash pooling agreements, whether against payment or not. The company can provide security of any kind for its own liabilities or the liabilities of the aforementioned persons, including by way of pledges, assignments, fiduciary transfers, guarantees of any kind or by way of offset obligations, whether against payment or not, even if such financing, security or guarantees are in the exclusive interest of third parties or companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved, or of direct or indirect shareholders or companies in which such shareholders are directly or indirectly involved.