The company's purpose is to acquire, hold, manage and exploit direct and indirect participations in Switzerland and abroad. It can carry out financing transactions of all kinds, establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad, acquire, hold and exploit industrial property rights, acquire, encumber, sell and manage real estate, take out and grant loans, provide guarantees or other securities and conduct all business that is directly or indirectly related to the aforementioned purposes, provided that such business does not require any licenses under the Federal Act on the Acquisition of Real Estate by Persons Abroad (Lex Koller).