The company's purpose is the acquisition and disposal of participations in all commercial, financial, industrial or real estate companies, as well as the financing and development of all projects, except for all operations prohibited by the LFAIE. The company may grant loans or guarantees if it serves its interests. The company may engage in any financial, commercial, industrial, movable or immovable activity, directly or indirectly related to its purpose or likely to promote its realization, conclude contracts that are intended to develop its activities or relate to them directly or indirectly, receive products in the form of interest, commissions and dividends, create branches or subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, take participations, acquire or create identical or similar companies, participate in all companies having a direct or indirect relationship with its purpose. It may carry out these operations for its own account as well as for the account of third parties. It may grant loans and provide guarantees to any person, in particular to its shareholders and directors.