The company's purpose is to acquire, sell and manage participations in companies of all kinds at home and abroad. The company can enter into all commercial, contractual and financial transactions that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or that are directly or indirectly related to it. The company can establish branches and subsidiaries at home and abroad and participate in other companies at home and abroad. The company can acquire, hold and sell intellectual property rights and licenses of all kinds. The company can acquire, manage and sell real estate. The company can conduct investment and lending transactions of all kinds and enter into guarantees, it can provide direct or indirect financing to group companies or third parties, including their direct or indirect shareholders as well as their or their direct or indirect subsidiaries, and provide collateral of all kinds for liabilities of such other companies, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of all kinds, whether remunerated or not.