In Switzerland and/or abroad, (i) any commercial operation related to the provision of advisory services; (ii) filing, acquiring, holding, and selling patents or any intellectual property rights and acquiring, holding, and granting licenses; (iii) granting loans and/or other direct or indirect financing (including, but not limited to, cash pooling agreements) to its direct and indirect subsidiaries and/or to third parties, including its direct and/or indirect shareholders as well as the direct and indirect subsidiaries of these shareholders; (iv) providing guarantees of any kind, whether paid or unpaid, and/or any other form of security, whether paid or unpaid, to one or more shareholders, to one or more companies in the group to which the company belongs and/or to one or more third parties in order to guarantee the commitments and/or obligations of one or more shareholders, of one or more companies in the group to which the company belongs and/or of one or more third parties, provided that this is in the interest of the company.