The company's purpose is to provide management consulting services, primarily in the life sciences sector, including the assumption of management functions, as well as the acquisition and holding of company participations in its own name and on its own account, but not for third parties. The company is authorized to conduct all business and take all measures that appear necessary or useful for achieving the aforementioned corporate purpose. It is authorized to establish branch offices and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad. The company may provide direct or indirect financing to third parties or companies in which it has a direct or indirect interest, as well as to direct or indirect shareholders or companies in which such parties have a direct or indirect interest, by means of loans and/or other financing, whether against payment or not. The company may grant security of any kind for its own liabilities or the liabilities of the aforementioned persons, including by means of pledges, assignments, fiduciary transfers, guarantees of any kind, or by means of offset obligations, whether against payment or not, even if such financing, security, or guarantees are in the exclusive interest of third parties or companies in which it has a direct or indirect interest, or of direct or indirect shareholders or companies in which such parties have a direct or indirect interest.