The company's purpose is to hold all types of securities, interest shares, or social rights that it may acquire or that may be contributed, to manage all portfolios of participating or investment securities, and any related activity. In pursuit of its purpose, the company may also take participations in any company, conduct treasury operations with these companies within the framework of applicable regulations, acquire and manage real estate in compliance with the LFAIE, obtain or acquire or exploit all industrial or intellectual property rights as well as their exploitation, provide services to all subsidiaries or non-subsidiaries in strategic, tactical, technical, commercial, or financial fields, and act as a commercial agent or goods merchant. The company may generally carry out all financial, commercial, industrial, movable, and immovable operations that can be directly or indirectly related to the above-mentioned purpose or to all similar or related purposes, with a view to promoting its development or expansion. The company may create branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire companies with identical or similar purposes, or merge with such companies, and carry out all operations and conclude all contracts that are suitable for developing and extending its purpose or that are directly or indirectly related thereto. It may acquire real estate, encumber it, alienate it, and administer it. The company may, for a fee or free of charge, grant loans to its partners or to third parties, or provide securities of all kinds to cover the commitments of its partners or third parties.