General consulting for businesses and private individuals as well as providing related services; may establish branches and subsidiaries domestically and abroad and invest in other companies domestically and abroad, and conduct all business that is directly or indirectly related to its purpose; may acquire, encumber, manage, dispose of such investments; and finance the companies in which it invests; may acquire, manage, and dispose of securities and intellectual property rights of all kinds, and provide related services; may participate in group financing, particularly by granting loans to its direct or indirect shareholders or other group companies or providing guarantees or other securities of all kinds for their liabilities to third parties, even if such loans or securities are in the sole interest of its direct or indirect shareholders or other group companies and are granted free of charge; may acquire, manage, and transfer patents, trademarks, and technical and industrial knowledge; may acquire, encumber, dispose of, and manage real property domestically and abroad. It may also provide financing on its own or another's account, as well as provide guarantees and sureties for subsidiaries and third parties.