The company's purpose is to finance, acquire, manage and dispose of its own assets of all kinds, as well as to participate in companies in Switzerland and abroad, and to manage its own assets, excluding regulated activities. The company may, in addition, engage in consulting, financing, investment and lending activities of any kind, enter into guarantees and provide securities in favor of third parties, and in general, enter into any transactions and conclude contracts that serve to promote the company's purpose and are directly and indirectly related thereto. It may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, found subsidiaries, participate in companies, acquire, hold, manage, encumber, utilize and dispose of intellectual property rights, and furthermore, take any legal actions that may be necessary to achieve the company's purpose, in particular, grant financing to affiliated and other companies, provide securities of any kind, or otherwise secure or guarantee obligations of these companies.