The company's purpose is the purchase, sale, brokerage, management, leasing, and enhancement of real estate; architectural services; construction, renovation, transformation, and general contracting work; import-export. The company may create branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire companies with identical or similar purposes, or merge with such companies, and carry out all operations and conclude all contracts that are suitable for developing and extending its purpose or are directly or indirectly related to it. It may acquire real property, encumber, alienate, and manage it, both in Switzerland and abroad. The company may, for a fee or free of charge, grant loans to its partners or to third parties, or provide securities of all kinds to cover the obligations of its partners or third parties.