The company's purpose is the acquisition, holding, administration, management and sale of participations in all commercial, industrial or real estate companies, and properties, all to the exclusion of operations prohibited by the LFAIE, in Switzerland and abroad. The company may also carry out any other activity having a direct or indirect connection with these purposes; it may in particular create branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire companies with an identical or similar purpose, or merge with such companies, carry out all operations and conclude all contracts suitable for developing and expanding its purpose or relating directly or indirectly thereto.