Acquisition, management and disposal of all participations in all real estate, commercial, industrial and financial companies, excluding all activities prohibited by the LFAIE; participation in all companies or enterprises having the same or similar, related, similar, accessory or complementary object to that of the subsidiary companies or belonging to the group; all real estate, financial and commercial transactions related to the management of participations or likely to facilitate, improve, consolidate, develop or safeguard them, excluding all activities prohibited by the LFAIE; all services related to administrative, IT, accounting, social, financial services and any commercial, technical or other activity for the benefit of its subsidiaries and all companies in which it has direct or indirect interests; any inventive activity and research and development operations in the industrial, technical or artistic field; acquisition, exploitation of all processes, patents, trademarks and other industrial property rights related to the above activities (see statutes for complete purpose).