The purpose of the company is to provide consulting services in the areas of strategy, business development, management, finance, as well as to assume board of directors and similar mandates. The company may also engage in all types of business. The company may participate in other enterprises, as well as acquire, exploit, manage, and dispose of real estate and intellectual property rights. It may establish subsidiaries and branches both domestically and abroad, and furthermore, it may perform all legal acts that the company's purpose may entail or that are suitable to promote its development or that of group companies. The company may grant direct or indirect financing to third parties, including companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved, its direct or indirect shareholders, as well as companies in which these are directly or indirectly involved, either through loans or other financing, and may provide securities of any kind for their liabilities, including pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets, or guarantees of any kind, whether for a fee or not.