The purpose of the company is to provide business consulting services both domestically and internationally, including management consulting, assuming board and other mandates, as well as acquiring, holding, managing, financing, and selling participations in other companies in Switzerland or abroad. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries, participate in other companies, assume representations, and engage in any business activity and conclude contracts of any kind that may be conducive to the company's purpose or that are directly or indirectly related to the company's purpose. The company may acquire, hold, manage, encumber, and sell real estate both domestically and internationally, except for transactions prohibited by the Federal Law on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Persons Abroad (BewG). In pursuing its corporate purpose, the company may consider the interests of the shareholders. In particular, the company may grant loans and other direct or indirect financings to its direct and indirect subsidiaries and third parties, including its direct and indirect shareholders and their direct and indirect subsidiaries, within the framework of cash pooling agreements (including zero balancing), and provide securities of any kind for the liabilities of these parties, including by pledging or fiduciary transfer of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind. This may also be done without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest, excluding the company's profit-seeking nature, and/or by incurring clustering risks.