The company's purpose is to acquire, manage and dispose of participations in domestic and foreign companies, as well as to provide management services related to these participations. The company may acquire rights and patents of all kinds, make the infrastructure created or maintained by it available to third parties, promote, support or organize events of any kind that are related to its purpose, establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, and conduct all business that is directly or indirectly related to its purpose. The company may acquire, encumber, sell and manage real estate in Switzerland and abroad. It may also provide financing for its own account or for the account of third parties, as well as provide securities, guarantees and sureties for affiliated companies and third parties. The company may grant loans or other financing of all kinds to its direct or indirect shareholders, its direct or indirect parent companies, and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, participate in them, and provide securities of all kinds for the liabilities of such other companies, in particular in the form of guarantees, pledges, global assignments, security transfers, security assignments, and indemnification agreements, whether remunerated or not. For this purpose, the company may also act exclusively in the interest of its direct or indirect shareholders, the group or individual group companies.