Investment service providers other than portfolio management companies that design financial instruments for sale to clients and investment service providers that offer, recommend or market financial instruments are not subject to the obligations set out in Article L. 533-24 and 1° to 3° of Article L. 533-24-1 when the investment service they provide relates to bonds that do not incorporate a derivative other than a redemption clause with early redemption fee or when the financial instruments are marketed exclusively for eligible counterparties or distributed exclusively to eligible counterparties.
For the purposes of this article, a redemption clause with an early redemption charge is any clause under which the issuer of a bond is required, in the event of early redemption, to pay the bondholder an amount equal to the sum of the net present value of the remaining coupon payments due until the maturity date and the principal amount of the bond to be redeemed.