The company's purpose is to acquire and permanently manage participations in other commercial, industrial, financial and real estate companies. It assumes control, coordination and management tasks for the companies in which it holds participations. The company may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, take over representations and enter into all transactions and conclude contracts that may be suitable to promote the purpose of the company or that are directly and indirectly related to it. The company may acquire, manage and sell properties and enter into financing agreements of all kinds. The company is part of a group of companies and may take into account the interests of the group in pursuing its corporate purpose. In particular, the company may grant loans and other direct or indirect financing to its direct and indirect subsidiaries and 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.