Purchase and sale of participations of all kinds and their permanent management, consulting and promotion; acquisition, encumbrance, sale and management of real estate; exploitation of licenses and intellectual property rights; granting of loans or other financing to third parties, including their direct or indirect parent companies as well as their direct or indirect subsidiaries, and providing security of all kinds for liabilities of such other companies, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether against payment or not.