The company's purpose is to provide management and consulting services, as well as to acquire, manage and dispose of participations in domestic and foreign companies of all kinds. The company may engage in trade with goods of all kinds, manufacture goods of all kinds and provide related services. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, found similar or related businesses, participate in other companies or merge with them. The company may, even without adequate consideration, conduct business with or for the benefit of related parties, in particular its shareholders and other group companies, or third parties, including providing direct or indirect financing to these persons, granting loans on its own account or on behalf of third parties to these persons, or providing guarantees, sureties, pledges or other securities to secure the obligations of these persons, even if these financings, loans or securities are in the exclusive interest of its direct or indirect shareholders or other group companies. The company may acquire, hold, manage, encumber and dispose of real estate in Switzerland and abroad. The company may acquire, hold, manage, encumber and dispose of patents and other intellectual property rights. The company may conduct all business, incur obligations and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the company's purpose and the development of the business, or that are directly or indirectly related to it.