The purpose of the company is to intermediate, finance, acquire, hold, manage, administer, encumber, sell and utilize participations of any form in companies of any kind in Switzerland and abroad for its own account or for the account of third parties, as well as to provide related consulting services, render services to subsidiaries and exercise all other functions associated with a holding company, in particular, but not exclusively, to assume management, leadership, control and supervisory functions, to assume management tasks, to assume representations, to carry out financings, to make investments of any kind, to manage investments of any kind and to provide consulting services of any kind. The company may engage in any industrial, commercial, financial and other activities in Switzerland and abroad, carry out transactions and conclude legal transactions that are directly or indirectly related to the company's purpose or are suitable for facilitating or promoting its achievement and/or the development of the company. As a result, the company may, in particular, establish, set up, dissolve or liquidate companies of any kind, branches and other representations in any form in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies of any kind in Switzerland and abroad, merge with other companies of any kind, acquire other companies of any kind or sell participations in other companies. The company may also acquire, hold, manage, administer, utilize, lease to third parties, encumber, trade, sell or utilize any other type of securities, investments, intangible assets or rights, raw materials of any kind, movable assets of any other kind as well as real estate of any kind in Switzerland and abroad, and conclude any other legal transactions related to these assets. Furthermore, the company may also take out loans and credits for itself, its affiliated companies, shareholders and third parties, grant loans and credits to its affiliated companies, shareholders and third parties, assume guarantees or other securities of any kind for loans and credits from its affiliated companies, shareholders or third parties, and enter into and assume exchange obligations. Finally, the company is also authorized to carry out any other form of financing and financial transactions for its own account or for the account of third parties.