The company's purpose is: - the purchase, sale and management of participations in companies in Switzerland and abroad, as well as the provision of all services in these areas; - the provision of all services in the areas of consulting and training in general, in particular through the exercise of mandates in the executive bodies of legal entities as well as through the organization of events, conferences and seminars. The company may: - carry out any financial, commercial and industrial activity directly or indirectly related to its purpose; - create branches or subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad; - participate in all companies having a direct or indirect relationship with its purpose; - grant loans to its direct or indirect shareholders as well as to any other company in the group and guarantee their obligations to third parties in any way, in particular through pledges, assignments or transfers for security or guarantees of any kind, remunerated or not; or participate in cash pooling operations within its group.