The company's purpose is to participate in and operate companies, provide consulting services in trade, as well as buy and sell companies of all kinds, organize corresponding companies and provide all related services, and conclude leasing and consulting contracts, as well as carry out financial transactions. The company may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire or merge with similar or related companies, and enter into all business transactions and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or are directly or indirectly related to it. It may also acquire, manage, encumber and dispose of real estate, intellectual property rights and licenses of all kinds. It may also provide financing for its own account or for the account of third parties, as well as provide guarantees and sureties for subsidiaries and third parties.