The company's purpose is to research, develop, register, produce, clinically evaluate and commercialize medicinal products. The company may acquire, hold, manage, utilize and transfer operational sites and intellectual property rights in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other industrial and commercial companies, and establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad. The company may participate in group financing, in particular by granting loans to its direct or indirect shareholders or other group companies, or by providing guarantees or other securities of any kind for their liabilities to third parties, even if these loans or securities are in the exclusive interest of its direct or indirect shareholders or other group companies, or are granted free of charge. Furthermore, the company may conduct any business that appears to promote the purpose of the company or is connected therewith.