The company's purpose is to broker national and international business, project developments, and the worldwide trade and distribution of consumer and economic goods of all kinds. The company also aims to acquire, hold, manage, and sell participations in other companies of any kind, both domestically and abroad, as well as finance them. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries both domestically and abroad, and carry out all legal transactions and conduct all business that is directly or indirectly related to its purpose. The company may acquire, hold, manage, encumber, utilize, and sell real estate and intellectual property rights both domestically and abroad. The company aligns its business activities, to the extent permitted, with the group's objectives. Accordingly, the company may, in the interest of the group or individual group companies (including their direct or indirect parent companies and their direct or indirect subsidiaries), conclude contracts, and in particular, grant loans or other financing to such group companies and provide security for their liabilities of any kind, including through pledges or security assignments and transfers of the company's assets, or through guarantees of any kind, whether for consideration or not.