The company's purpose is to engage in engineering consulting activities. The company may establish branches in Switzerland or abroad. The company may acquire, hold, finance, and dispose of real estate, excluding residential real estate in Switzerland, as well as shares in companies, excluding companies and enterprises holding residential real estate in Switzerland, and any other securities. The company may carry out all commercial, movable, and immovable property transactions, and all financial, industrial, or technical operations, including the import-export of all goods or services or taking a stake in any commercial, financial, or industrial enterprise, directly or indirectly related to its corporate purpose or likely to promote it, in Switzerland or abroad. The company may also grant loans or provide any other services (notably financial) to its direct or indirect shareholders or to its sister companies or direct or indirect subsidiaries, as well as to third parties, including entering into cash pooling agreements, and grant securities of any kind on its assets, including through pledges or transfers in trust or through guarantees of any kind, to guarantee the obligations of its direct or indirect shareholders, of its sister companies or direct or indirect subsidiaries or of third parties, in each case with or without consideration and even if these operations are exclusively in the interest of third parties.