The purpose of the company is the establishment and management of trusts, foundations, companies and partnerships, as well as the provision of consulting and fiduciary services of all kinds. The company may engage in all activities related to, connected with and beneficial to the provision of these services. It may establish branches abroad, found subsidiaries, acquire, hold, manage, encumber, utilize and sell foreign real estate investments, commercial real estate within Switzerland and intellectual property rights, and furthermore perform all legal transactions that may be necessary to achieve the company's purpose, in particular also to provide security of any kind for the benefit of affiliated companies or to secure or guarantee obligations of these companies in any other way, also without consideration, on preferential terms, excluding the company's profit motive and assuming cluster risks.