The company's purpose is to acquire and manage participations in companies of all kinds, as well as to conduct financing, investment and lending transactions. The company may also provide consulting and management services, assume board of directors or foundation board mandates and management functions on a temporary basis. The company may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies, acquire or merge with similar or related companies. It may acquire, manage, encumber and sell real estate, as well as enter into any business and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or are directly or indirectly related to it.