Financing of companies, acquisition, holding, management and disposal of participations in other companies, financial consulting, evaluation of intangible rights; it may establish subsidiaries; provide financing for its own account or for the account of third parties, grant loans or other financing to its direct or indirect shareholders as well as to its or their direct or indirect subsidiaries, and enter into security transactions of all kinds for affiliated companies and third parties, in particular in the form of guarantees, pledges, (global) assignments, security assignments, security transfers and indemnification agreements, even if these financing or security transactions are in the exclusive interest of its direct or indirect shareholders or their direct or indirect subsidiaries, or are made without corresponding consideration, acquire, hold and dispose of patents, copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual property rights as well as licenses of all kinds and real estate.