Acquisition, long-term holding and management as well as disposal of participations in domestic and foreign companies with their own legal personality and their financing; exercise of the activities of a financing company, including the execution of financial transactions of all kinds and brokerage, execution and participation in the financing of companies. The company is authorized to establish branches, business establishments and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad. It can acquire, utilize and dispose of real estate, buildings, movable assets and intellectual property rights (patents, licenses and other industrial property rights) as well as other assets in Switzerland and abroad.