The company's purpose is to develop, realize and utilize real estate and construction projects; manage, rent and broker properties; plan and execute new and renovation projects, also as a general contractor; project management as well as consulting and support in development, environmental and financing matters. The company can establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad and participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad. The company can acquire, hold, manage, exploit and sell properties and intellectual property rights, copyrights, patents and licenses of all kinds in Switzerland and abroad. The company can carry out all commercial, financial and other activities that appear to promote the purpose of the company or are connected with it. In particular, the company can grant loans and other direct or indirect financing to its direct and indirect subsidiaries or affiliated companies as well as to third parties, including its direct and indirect shareholders and their direct and indirect subsidiaries or affiliated companies, including within the framework of cash pooling agreements, and provide security of all kinds for their liabilities, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether remunerated or not.