The company's purpose is: acquisition, development, financing, management and disposal of participations in other companies, properties and real estate of all kinds, excluding transactions subject to the Lex Koller (Federal Act on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Persons Abroad); furthermore, consulting, project management and management services. All of the aforementioned activities can be performed both domestically and abroad. The company can establish, hold and dispose of branches both domestically and abroad. The company can engage in all commercial, financial and other activities that are directly or indirectly related to the company's purpose. In particular, the company can grant loans and other direct or indirect financing to its direct and indirect subsidiaries as well as to third parties, including its direct and indirect shareholders and their direct and indirect subsidiaries, including within the framework of cash pooling agreements, and provide collateral of all kinds for their liabilities, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether remunerated or not.