The purpose of the company is to provide consulting, administrative and other services to group companies and related persons in Switzerland and abroad, and to support their strategy and development, in particular in the areas of asset management, asset investment, real estate management and acquisition, holding, management and disposal of participations. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad and participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad. The company may acquire, hold, manage, encumber, utilize and dispose of real estate and intellectual property rights in Switzerland and abroad, as well as finance other companies. The company may grant direct or indirect financing to its direct or indirect subsidiaries and third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, provide securities of all kinds for its own liabilities and those of other companies (including direct or indirect shareholders of the company or companies in which these shareholders are directly or indirectly involved), including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers or assignments of assets of the company, or provide guarantees, enter into suretyships or otherwise secure or guarantee obligations of the company or these other companies, whether for consideration or not. Furthermore, it may engage in liquidity balancing/concentration of net liquidity (cash pooling) with the aforementioned companies or join such an arrangement, including periodic account balancing. All of this may be done by the company without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest, excluding the company's profit motive and assuming cluster risks. The company may engage in all commercial, financial and other activities that appear suitable to promote the purpose of the company or are related thereto.