The purpose of the company is to operate a comprehensive consulting firm in the areas of strategy, real estate, investments, taxes, law and finance, as well as to provide related services, to the extent that they do not fall under the Banking Act or the Stock Exchange Act. The company is not active as a financial intermediary. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies, assume representations and engage in any business activity and conclude contracts of any kind that may promote the company's purpose or are directly or indirectly related to it. The company may acquire, hold, manage, encumber and sell real estate in Switzerland and abroad. Excluded are transactions prohibited by the Federal Act on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Persons Abroad (BewG). In pursuing its corporate purpose, the company may take into account the interests of its shareholders. In particular, the company may grant loans and other direct or indirect financing to its direct and indirect subsidiaries and third parties, including its direct and indirect shareholders and their direct and indirect subsidiaries, including within the framework of cash pooling agreements (including zero balancing), and provide collateral 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. This also applies without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest, to the exclusion of the company's profit motive and/or with the assumption of cluster risks.