The purpose of the company is to acquire, manage and dispose of participations in domestic and foreign companies of all kinds, as well as to finance them. The company may grant loans or other financing to its direct and indirect parent companies and shareholders, as well as to their direct or indirect subsidiaries, and provide collateral of all kinds for liabilities of such other companies, in particular in the form of guarantees, pledges, global assignments, security transfers, security assignments and indemnification agreements. The company may establish branch operations in Switzerland and abroad, found subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, acquire, exploit and dispose of industrial property rights, know-how and real estate, and in general enter into all transactions and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or are directly or indirectly related to it.