The company's purpose is: the purchase, permanent management, and sale of shares in Swiss and foreign companies of all kinds, notably in the fields of education, real estate (with the exception of all operations prohibited by the LFAIE), and services. It may also, either for its own account or for the account of third parties, carry out all financial, commercial, movable, and immovable operations directly or indirectly related to its corporate purpose and be interested, in all forms, in all similar enterprises, notably by taking shares in similar enterprises. The company may also establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, as well as finance other companies. It may acquire, hold, manage, operate, and sell real estate and intellectual property rights in Switzerland and abroad. The company may directly or indirectly provide funds to its subsidiaries as well as to third parties, including its shareholders and their subsidiaries, provide all types of guarantees for its own debts and for the debts of other companies, including pledges, fiduciary transfers, or fiduciary assignments of the company's assets, and provide guarantees, issue securities, guarantee in any other way the commitments of the company or other companies, provided that this promotes its interests. It may finance other companies, carry out cash pooling operations with other companies, or participate in this cash pooling, including periodic account balancing. It may do all this without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest, excluding the search for the company's profit and taking concentration risks.