---
title: "FRANKLIN TOPCO LIMITED — Ownership Dossier"
canonical: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/042bdbee-2091-59eb-a005-bd14ef70977d
json: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/042bdbee-2091-59eb-a005-bd14ef70977d
identifier: oo:GB-COH-13549340
jurisdiction: GB
risk: Low
source: WhiteIntel corporate-ownership graph
---

# FRANKLIN TOPCO LIMITED

**Type:** Company  
**Jurisdiction:** GB  
**Identifier:** `oo:GB-COH-13549340`  
**Risk level:** Low  
**Canonical dossier:** https://whiteintel.dev/entity/042bdbee-2091-59eb-a005-bd14ef70977d  
**Structured JSON / MCP:** https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/042bdbee-2091-59eb-a005-bd14ef70977d  

## Ownership & control

### Owners / controllers

- **ARCHMORE INFRASTRUCTURE HOLDINGS LTD** (beneficial owner) — 50% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/dd82fb24-e629-5787-9e55-398b1ee50c16
- **GVC HOLDING EUROPE LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 50% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/abb32ab3-6fff-5fc3-a8fe-059227d31714
- **ARCHMORE INFRASTRUCTURE HOLDINGS LTD** (beneficial owner) — 37.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/dd82fb24-e629-5787-9e55-398b1ee50c16

### Holdings / subsidiaries

- **DATUM BIDCO LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/cf8ffa82-e771-50f4-ac8d-826877c46494
- **DATUM BIDCO LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 87.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/cf8ffa82-e771-50f4-ac8d-826877c46494

### UBO chain (walk to the ultimate owner)

1. **ARCHMORE INFRASTRUCTURE HOLDINGS LTD** — beneficial owner 50% → *FRANKLIN TOPCO LIMITED*
1. **GVC HOLDING EUROPE LIMITED** — beneficial owner 50% → *FRANKLIN TOPCO LIMITED*
1. **ARCHMORE INFRASTRUCTURE HOLDINGS LTD** — beneficial owner 37.5% → *FRANKLIN TOPCO LIMITED*
2. **Golden Zuul, Llc** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *GVC HOLDING EUROPE LIMITED*
2. **UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT (UK) LTD** — beneficial owner → *ARCHMORE INFRASTRUCTURE HOLDINGS LTD*
2. **UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT (UK) LTD** — beneficial owner → *ARCHMORE INFRASTRUCTURE HOLDINGS LTD*

## Company profile (live · UK Companies House)

- **Company number:** `13549340`
- **Status:** active
- **Type:** ltd
- **Incorporated:** 2021-08-05
- **Registered office:** Datum Datacentres Ltd Cody Technology Park, Old Ively Road, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 0LX, England
- **SIC:** 63110

### Officers

- HOWARD, Paul Derek, Dr — secretary · appointed 2022-04-05
- BERTINI, Edoardo Maria — director · Italian · appointed 2024-10-15
- CONTAT DESFONTAINES, Thibault — director · British · appointed 2022-12-01
- LIDDELL, Stephen Charles — director · British · appointed 2022-04-05
- MORRIS, Paul — director · British · appointed 2022-04-05
- PHILLIPS, Dominic — director · British · appointed 2022-04-05
- RICHARDS, Mark Jonathan — director · British · appointed 2022-04-05
- CSEH, Arpad — director · Hungarian,British · appointed 2021-08-05 · resigned 2022-04-05
- LIU, Kailong Alexander — director · German · appointed 2021-08-05 · resigned 2022-12-01
- MORRIS, Andrew Montague — director · British,South African · appointed 2022-12-01 · resigned 2024-10-15

### Beneficial owners (Persons with Significant Control)

- [Gvc Holding Europe Limited](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/abb32ab3-6fff-5fc3-a8fe-059227d31714) — 25–50% shares · corporate PSC · United Kingdom — since 2022-09-08
- [Archmore Infrastructure Holdings Ltd](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/dd82fb24-e629-5787-9e55-398b1ee50c16) — 25–50% shares · corporate PSC · United Kingdom — since 2021-08-05

## Provenance

- OpenOwnership — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/13549340

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_This is the markdown-for-agents view of the WhiteIntel dossier for **FRANKLIN TOPCO LIMITED**. Human view: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/042bdbee-2091-59eb-a005-bd14ef70977d · Structured JSON: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/042bdbee-2091-59eb-a005-bd14ef70977d._

_Risk levels are heuristic investigative leads, not legal determinations of beneficial ownership. Every claim carries a source; an absent edge means "not yet observed in current sources", not "does not exist"._