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Article L440-8 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

No creditor of an originator, of an investment services provider other than a portfolio management company referred to in Article L. 440-7, of a member of a clearing house or, as the case may be, of the clearing house itself, nor any court-appointed agent appointed under Book VI of the Commercial Code may claim any right whatsoever over deposits which take the form of a financial guarantee provided for in Article L. 211-38 of this Code, even on the basis of Book VI of the Commercial Code.

The prohibitions mentioned in the first paragraph are also applicable to legal or amicable proceedings initiated outside France which are equivalent or similar to those provided for in Book VI of the Commercial Code.

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Article L440-8

Aucun créancier d’un donneur d’ordre, d’un prestataire de services d’investissement autre qu’une société de gestion de portefeuille mentionné à l’article L. 440-7, d’un adhérent d’une chambre de compensation ou, selon le cas, de la chambre elle-même ni aucun mandataire de justice désigné dans le cadre du livre VI du code de commerce ne peut se prévaloir d’un droit quelconque sur les dépôts qui prennent la forme d’une garantie financière prévue à l’article L. 211-38 du présent code, même sur le fondement du livre VI du code de commerce.

Les interdictions mentionnées au premier alinéa sont également applicables aux procédures judiciaires ou amiables ouvertes hors de France, équivalentes ou similaires à celles prévues au livre VI du code de commerce.

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