The company's purpose is to participate in Switzerland and abroad in all service companies, particularly in planning, study, project, control and, if necessary, promotion or realization of buildings or works; to administer and manage these participations, to finance them and, if necessary, to resell them. The company may itself carry out the aforementioned activities. The company may establish branches in Switzerland or abroad. The company may acquire, hold, finance and alienate real estate, excluding residential properties in Switzerland, as well as participations in companies, excluding companies and enterprises holding residential real estate in Switzerland, and all other securities. The company may carry out all commercial, movable or immovable transactions, and all financial, industrial or technical transactions, including the import-export of all goods or services or the acquisition of participations in any commercial, financial or industrial enterprise, in direct or indirect relation to its corporate purpose or likely to promote it, in Switzerland or abroad. The company may also grant loans or provide all other services (including financial services) to its direct or indirect shareholders or to its sister or subsidiary companies, direct or indirect, as well as to third parties, including concluding cash pooling agreements, and grant securities of any kind on its assets, including by way of pledge or fiduciary transfer or by way of guarantees of any kind, to guarantee the obligations of its direct or indirect shareholders, its sister or subsidiary companies, direct or indirect, or third parties, in each case with or without consideration and even if these transactions are in the exclusive interest of third parties.