The company's purpose is to participate in companies of all kinds in Switzerland and abroad, as well as to finance them. The company can acquire, develop, encumber, sell and manage licenses, patents and other intangible assets, as well as real estate, in Switzerland and abroad. It can also establish subsidiaries and branches 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 is part of a group and may consider the interests of the group when pursuing its corporate purpose. The company can conduct investment and lending transactions of all kinds, provide guarantees, grant direct or indirect financing to group companies or third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, and provide security for liabilities of such other companies, including by way of pledges or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether for consideration or not. Furthermore, it can operate a liquidity adjustment/concentration of net liquidity (cash pooling) with the aforementioned companies or join such an arrangement, including periodic account settlement (zero balancing), also under preferential conditions without interest, excluding the company's profit motive and assuming cluster risks.