Acquisition, holding, administration and disposal of participations in domestic and foreign companies of any kind. Can provide these companies with strategic, administrative, financial and organizational services, in particular in the areas of management, financing, controlling, legal and marketing. Can acquire, administer, broker and dispose of real property, know-how, licenses, patents and other intangible assets, as well as establish branches and subsidiaries at home and abroad and generally conduct all business that is related to the purpose of the company or is suitable to promote it, while pursuing its corporate purpose, take into account the interests of the shareholders, in particular grant loans and other direct or indirect financings to their direct and indirect subsidiaries and to third parties, including their direct and indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, within the framework of cash pooling agreements (incl. Zero Balancing), and provide securities of any kind for the liabilities of these parties, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, even without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest, excluding the profit-seeking of the company and/or assuming clumping risks.