Without prejudice to Articles L. 142-9, L. 312-14, L. 322-2, L. 612-17, L. 613-34-4 and L. 632-1 A, the following persons are bound by professional secrecy under the conditions and subject to the penalties laid down in Article L. 641-1 when they contribute to the performance of the duties defined in 4° of II of Article L. 612-1 :
1° Any person whom the resolution college or the supervisory college consults as a potential purchaser ;
2° Any person to whom the potential acquirer directly or indirectly calls for the purposes of the consultation referred to in the previous paragraph;
3° Auditors, accountants, legal and professional advisers, valuers and other experts;
4° Any person hired by the bridge institution referred to in Article L. 613-53 and the asset management structure referred to in Article L. 613-54;
5° Any other person providing or having provided services, directly or indirectly, on a permanent or occasional basis, to the persons mentioned above, to the special or temporary administrators, to the supervisory board, to the resolution board, to the Banque de France, to the deposit guarantee and resolution fund and to the State;
6° The general management, the members of the management body and the staff of the bodies or entities mentioned in 1° to 4°.
The prohibition resulting from the first paragraph does not apply when the authority or person who has communicated this confidential information has given its express prior consent to this disclosure and solely for the purposes for which it gave its consent.