The company's purpose is to acquire, hold, manage and sell participations of all kinds in domestic and foreign companies of all kinds. The company can acquire, exploit, manage and sell intangible property rights, establish subsidiaries and branches in Switzerland and abroad, and carry out all legal transactions that may be connected with the company's purpose or are suitable to promote its development or that of group companies. The company can grant direct or indirect financing to third parties, including companies in which it has a direct or indirect interest, its direct or indirect shareholders, as well as companies in which such parties have a direct or indirect interest, whether by way of loans or other financing, including within the framework of cash pooling agreements, and provide security of any kind for their liabilities, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or by way of guarantees of any kind, whether against payment or not.