Investment firms are legal entities, other than portfolio management companies and credit institutions, which are authorised to provide the investment services referred to in Article L. 321-1 on a regular professional basis.
The investment firms defined in the previous paragraph may be:
1° A class 1 bis investment firm, authorised to provide any of the investment services mentioned in 3, 6-1 or 6-2 of article L. 321-1, which is not a trader in commodities and emission allowances as defined in point 150 of paragraph 1 of Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013, or an insurance company or an undertaking for collective investment and which meets one of the following conditions:
a) The total value of its consolidated assets reaches or exceeds €15 billion, calculated as an average over the last twelve months, excluding the value of the individual assets of any subsidiary established outside the European Union which performs any of the investment services mentioned in 3, 6-1 or 6-2 of Article L. 321-1;
b) The total value of its consolidated assets is less than 15 billion euros and it is part of a group in which the total value of the consolidated assets of all the companies in the group, each of which individually has total assets of less than 15 billion euros, and which provide any of the investment services mentioned in 3, 6-1 or 6-2 of Article L. 321-1, has reached or exceeds 15 billion euros. These amounts are calculated as the average over the last twelve months, excluding the value of the individual assets of any subsidiary established outside the European Union which carries out any of the activities mentioned in the first paragraph;
c) It has been the subject of a decision by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution pursuant to Article L. 533-4-2;
d) It benefits from an authorisation granted by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution pursuant to paragraph 5 of Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2019/2033 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019;
2° A class 2 investment firm, which is neither a class 1 bis investment firm nor a class 3 investment firm;
3° A class 3 investment firm which meets all the conditions set out in paragraph 1 of Article 12 of the same Regulation.