The company's purpose is to acquire, hold, manage and dispose of participations in other companies of any kind, both domestically and abroad. The company may acquire, utilize, manage and dispose of business premises, real estate and intellectual property rights, establish subsidiaries and branches both domestically and abroad, and furthermore carry out all legal transactions that may be conducive to the company's purpose or that are suitable to promote its development or that of group companies. The company may grant direct or indirect financing to third parties, including companies in which it has a direct or indirect interest, its direct or indirect shareholders, as well as companies in which such parties have a direct or indirect interest, whether by means of loans or other forms of financing, including within the framework of cash pooling agreements, and may also provide security of any kind for their liabilities, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or by way of guarantees of any kind, whether against payment or not.