EX-5.2 8 a2199083zex-5_2.htm EXHIBIT 5.2

Exhibit 5.2

 

[LETTERHEAD OF FRIED, FRANK, HARRIS, SHRIVER & JACOBSON (LONDON) LLP]

 

June 15, 2010

 

Virgin Media Secured Finance PLC

160 Great Portland Street

W1W 5QA

United Kingdom

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

1.                                          INTRODUCTION

 

We have acted as English counsel for and have taken instructions solely from Virgin Media Secured Finance PLC, a public limited company organised under the laws of England and Wales (the “Issuer”) and Virgin Media Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Parent”) in connection with the Issuer’s offer (the “Exchange Offer”) to exchange up to $1,000,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of its new 6.50% Senior Secured Notes due 2018 and up to £875,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of its new 7.00% Senior Secured Notes due 2018 (collectively, the “Exchange Notes”), which are being registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), for a like principal amount of its 6.50% Senior Secured Notes due 2018 and 7.00% Senior Secured Notes due 2018, respectively, that were issued on January 19, 2010 (collectively, the “Outstanding Notes” and, together with the Exchange Notes, the “Notes”) pursuant to the Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 15, 2010 (as may be amended from time to time, the “Registration Statement”).

 

Pursuant to the terms of the Indenture (as defined below), the Outstanding Notes are, and the Exchange Notes will be, unconditionally guaranteed, jointly and severally, by the English Guarantors on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Indenture. All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in, or by reference in, the Indenture have the meanings assigned to such terms therein or by reference therein, unless otherwise defined herein.

 

2.                                          DOCUMENTS EXAMINED AND SEARCHES

 

2.1                                     For the purposes of this opinion, we have relied on and examined copies of the Documents, the Certificates, the Consent Letter, the Resolutions and the Constitutive Documents only.

 

2.2                                     On June 11, 2010 we carried out company searches at the Companies Registry, Cardiff, in respect of each of the English Companies, but we have not conducted any further search since that date. On June 14, 2010 we performed further searches of the insolvency register at the Companies Registry, Cardiff in respect of each of the English Companies, but we have not conducted any further search since that date.

 

2.3                                     Except as otherwise stated herein, we have not:

 

(a)                                  examined any contracts, deeds, instruments or documents and we have not made any search at the High Court, Strand, London or any other court in the United Kingdom in respect of winding-up or similar petitions;

 

(b)                                 examined any corporate or other records of any English Entity or any other party to any of the Documents;

 

(c)                                  investigated whether any English Entity or any other party to any of the Documents is or will be, by reason of any of the transactions and matters contemplated by the

 



 

Documents, in breach of any of its obligations under any other contract, deed, instrument or document; or

 

(d)                                 made any enquiries concerning any English Entity or any other party to any of the Documents.

 

3.                                          DEFINITIONS

 

For the purposes of this Opinion:

 

3.1                                     Certificates means, in the case of each of the English Companies, a director’s certificate or, in the case of each of the English Partnerships, a partners’ certificate, in each case, dated either January 19, 2010, April 19, 2010, May 17, 2010, or June 10, 2010, in each case, attaching copies of their respective Constitutive Documents and Resolutions and, in each case, a directors certificates or a partners certificate (as applicable) dated June 15, 2010, and on which we have relied in giving this opinion;

 

3.2                                     Constitutive Documents” means, in the case of each of the English Companies, its memorandum and articles of association and, in the case of each of the English Partnerships, the agreements and other instruments detailed and specified as such in part 3 of schedule 1 (The English Entities — The English Partnerships) hereto, in each case, as attached to the relevant Certificate for the relevant English Entity;

 

3.3                                     Consent Letter” means the letter of consent dated January 7, 2010 from Telewest Limited in respect of Birmingham Cable Limited and its subsidiaries;

 

3.4                                     Documents means, together, the Indenture (including the Supplemental Indentures, as applicable),  the Notes and the Note Guarantees;

 

3.5                                     English Companies means each of the English Limited Liability Companies and each of the English Unlimited Liability Companies;

 

3.6                                     English Entities” means each of the English Limited Liability Companies, each of the English Unlimited Liability Companies and each of the English Partnerships;

 

3.7                                     English Guarantors means each of the English Entities (other than the Issuer);

 

3.8                                     English Limited Liability Companies” means each of the companies specified in part 1 of schedule 1 (The English Entities — The English Limited Liability Companies) hereto;

 

3.9                                     English Partnerships” means each of the partnerships or joint ventures specified in part 3 of schedule 1 (The English Entities — The English Partnerships) hereto, whose current partners or joint venturers are listed against the name of each such partnership or joint venture therein;

 

3.10                               English Unlimited Liability Companies” means each of the companies specified in part 2 of schedule 1 (The English Entities — The English Unlimited Liability Companies) hereto;

 

3.11                               Indenture” means the Indenture, dated as of January 19, 2010, among the Issuer, the Parent, Virgin Media Finance PLC, Virgin Media Investment Holdings Limited, the subsidiary guarantors named therein, The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee and paying agent, and The Bank of New York Mellon (Luxembourg) S.A., as Luxembourg paying agent, as supplemented by a First Supplemental Indenture dated as of April 19, 2010, a Second Supplemental Indenture dated as of May 17, 2010 and a Third Supplemental Indenture dated as of June 10, 2010 (each a “Supplemental Indenture” and together, the “Supplemental Indentures”); and

 

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3.12                               Resolutions” means, in the case of each of the English Companies, written resolutions of the directors thereof and written resolutions of the members thereof or, in the case of each of the English Partnerships, written resolutions of the partners thereof, in each case, relating to, amongst other things, the due authorisation of the execution, delivery and performance of the Documents to which it is a party and as attached to the relevant Certificate for the relevant English Entity.

 

4.                                          SCOPE OF OPINION

 

4.1                                     This opinion is limited to English law and is itself governed by English law. By accepting this opinion you irrevocably agree and accept that the English courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine any dispute or claim relating to it or its formation.

 

4.2                                     We express no opinion as to the laws of any jurisdiction other than the laws of England and Wales in force (and as interpreted by the English courts) at the date of this opinion and we undertake no responsibility to notify any addressee of this opinion of any change in English law after the date of this opinion. To the extent that the laws of any jurisdiction other than England and Wales may be relevant, we have made no independent investigation thereof and our opinion is subject to the effect of such laws.

 

4.3                                     We express no opinion as to matters of fact or taxation.

 

4.4                                     This opinion is limited to the matters stated herein and is not to be read as extending by implication or otherwise to any other matter in connection with the Documents or the English Entities.

 

5.                                          ASSUMPTIONS

 

In giving this opinion we have assumed the following:

 

5.1                                     All signatures, stamps and seals are genuine.

 

5.2                                     All documents submitted to us as originals are authentic and complete.

 

5.3                                     All documents submitted to us as copies or received by facsimile or other electronic transmission conform to the originals, and the original documents of which such copies, facsimiles or electronic copies have been supplied to us were authentic and complete.

 

5.4                                     All documents submitted to us in draft form have been or will be executed by the parties thereto in the same form as submitted to us without any amendment or modification thereto.

 

5.5                                     No amendments (whether oral, in writing or by conduct of the parties) have been made to the Documents since the dates thereof and there are no other arrangements between any of the parties to the Documents or otherwise which modify or supersede any of the terms thereof or any other matter which renders the Documents inaccurate, incomplete or misleading or which affects the conclusions stated in this opinion and, to the extent applicable, each of the Documents are or have been executed in the same form as the forms examined by us for the purposes of this opinion.

 

5.6                                     The Certificates and other documents on which we have expressed reliance in the giving of this opinion (and the factual statements in such Certificates or documents) remain accurate and there have been no changes made to such Certificates or documents (including to the Constitutive Documents of each of the English Entities as compared to the forms certified as being in force and provided to us under the Certificates) since the date of such Certificates or documents and no matters would have been disclosed by searches being carried out since the carrying out of the searches referred to in paragraph 2.2 above and that the particulars disclosed by such searches are true, complete and up-to-date.

 

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5.7                                     In relation to each party to the Documents (other than the English Entities), it is and was at all relevant times duly incorporated and validly existing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation.

 

5.8                                     In relation to each party to the Documents (other than the English Entities), its execution, delivery and performance of the Documents, is and was at all relevant times within its capacity and powers and its entry into the Documents, has been validly authorised.

 

5.9                                     The Documents (substantially in the form examined by us) have been or will be duly executed (other than by the English Entities) and, where applicable, have been or will be delivered by all of the parties thereto.

 

5.10                               The obligations expressed to be assumed by each of the parties to each of the Documents constitute their respective legally valid, binding and enforceable obligations under all applicable laws.

 

5.11                               The copies of the Resolutions of each English Company provided to us in connection with the giving of this opinion are true copies of the written resolutions of all of the directors or members (as the case may be) of each English Company and such written resolutions have not been amended, rescinded or superseded and are in full force and effect and the directors or members (as the case may be), in resolving such matters, were acting in good faith.

 

5.12                               The copies of the Resolutions of each English Partnership provided to us in connection with the giving of this opinion are true copies of the written resolutions of all of the partners of each English Partnership and such written resolutions have not been amended, rescinded or superseded and are in full force and effect and the partners, in resolving such matters, were acting in good faith.

 

5.13                               In relation to any person or entity (other than any English Company) which has executed or will execute any of the Documents by or on behalf of any English Partnership, its execution of the Documents is and was at all relevant times within its capacity and powers and its execution thereof has been validly authorised and is binding on and enforceable against it.

 

5.14                               None of the English Entities or any of the other parties to the Documents has passed a voluntary winding-up resolution and no petition or application has been presented to, or order made by, a court for the winding-up or dissolution of such party or an administration order made in respect of any such party and no receiver, administrator, administrative receiver, liquidator or similar officer has been appointed in respect of any such party or any of their respective assets or, in each case, any equivalent or analogous events or actions in respect of any English Partnership.

 

5.15                               No English Entity was unable to pay its debts, within the meaning of section 123 of the Insolvency Act 1986, at the time it entered into any of the Documents to which it is a party and will not be or was not, immediately after the execution of such Documents, unable to pay its debts within the meaning of that section or, in the case of any of the English Partnerships, any corresponding provision in any statute by which the English Partnerships are governed.

 

5.16                               No English Entity has been dissolved.

 

5.17                               The execution by each English Company of each of the Documents to which it is a party and the exercise by it of its rights and the performance by it of its obligations thereunder (including the giving of any guarantees) is or was for the benefit of and in the best interests of such English Company and will promote each English Company’s success for the benefit of their respective members as a whole.

 

5.18                               All representations as to fact made in the Documents and the Certificates were and remain accurate.

 

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5.19                               None of the parties to the documents to which this opinion relates was, is or will be seeking to achieve any purpose not apparent from the Documents.

 

5.20                               There are no provisions of any laws other than the laws of England and Wales, which would have any implications for the opinions which we express and, insofar as any such other laws may be relevant, such other laws have been or will be complied with and there are no provisions of the laws of any other jurisdiction outside England and Wales which would be contravened by the execution, delivery and performance of the Documents, the consummation of the Exchange Offer or the granting of the Note Guarantees.

 

5.21                               Each party to the Documents to which this opinion relates has complied and will at all relevant times comply with all applicable anti-money laundering reporting requirements under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and no persons commits money laundering for the purposes of that Act in connection with such Documents or any business under them.

 

5.22                               Those entities listed in part 3 of schedule 1 (The English Entities — The English Partnerships) as partners of each English Partnership are and at all relevant times were the current and only partners thereof.

 

5.23                               In relation to each of the English Partnerships, the partners thereof are and at all relevant times were carrying on business between them in accordance with the terms of the Constitutive Document of such English Partnership as set out in part 3 of schedule 1 (The English Entities — The English Partnerships).

 

5.24                               Any person who executes or has executed a Document as a partner of an English Partnership does or did so for the purposes of the business of that English Partnership carried on in the usual way.

 

5.25                               There are and at all relevant times were no contractual or similar restrictions binding on the English Entities (other than as may be contained in the Documents or the respective Constitutive Documents of the English Entities) which would affect the conclusions in this opinion.

 

5.26                               Any person signing any Document on behalf of any English Entity has individual, legal and mental capacity to execute such Documents and is not acting under duress.

 

6.                                          OPINION

 

Based on the foregoing, subject to any matters not disclosed to us and subject to the qualifications set out below, we give the following opinions:

 

6.1                                     Each of the English Limited Liability Companies is a private limited liability company (other than the Issuer and Virgin Media Finance PLC, which are public limited liability companies), and each of the English Unlimited Liability Companies is an unlimited liability company, in each case, duly incorporated and subsisting under the laws of England and Wales.

 

6.2                                     Each English Partnership is an English general partnership under the Partnership Act 1890.

 

6.3                                     Each of the English Companies has (or had, as applicable) all requisite capacity and power to enter into, deliver and perform its obligations under the Documents to which it is a party and has taken all necessary corporate action to authorise the entry into, delivery and performance of its obligations thereunder. Each of the partners of each of the English Partnerships has approved the execution, delivery and performance by that English Partnership of the Documents to which that English Partnership is a party.

 

6.4                                     Each of the English Entities has duly executed the Documents to which it is a party.

 

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7.                                          QUALIFICATIONS

 

This opinion is subject to the following qualifications:

 

7.1                                     We express no opinion as to the validity or enforceability of any of the Documents, in each case, to which any of the English Entities are a party nor to the effectiveness, validity, enforceability or perfection or registration requirements of or in respect of any of the Note Guarantees.

 

7.2                                     We express no opinion as to whether any person will be prevented from acquiring Notes or taking the benefit of any Guarantee or may be required to divest any Notes or interest in the Guarantees.

 

7.3                                     The question under English law as to whether an arrangement constitutes a general partnership under the Partnership Act 1890 depends on, amongst other things, the conduct and intention of the relevant parties. There is, as a result, the possibility that based on an analysis of the conduct and intention of the partners at a specified point in time, an English court may conclude that the English Partnership in question does not constitute a general partnership under the Partnership Act 1890. In addition, we note that (i) the constitutive document of each of the English Partnerships named Avon Cable Joint Venture, Telewest Communications (London South) Joint Venture, Telewest Communications (Cotswolds) Joint Venture and Telewest Communications (Scotland) Venture describes the proposed arrangements between the parties thereto as a “joint venture” rather than a partnership and (ii) in the case of the English Partnership named Telewest Communications (London South) Joint Venture, its constitutive document provides that certain equipment used for the purpose of that English Partnership remains the exclusive property of the party which purchased it. An English court may give weight to these facts in determining the status of such arrangements and decide that, on balance, those arrangements do not constitute a general partnership under the Partnership Act 1890.

 

8.                                          CONSENT

 

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the reference to this firm under the caption “Legal Matters” in the prospectus that is included in the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not hereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act.

 

 

Yours faithfully

 

 

/s/ FRIED, FRANK, HARRIS, SHRIVER & JACOBSON (LONDON) LLP

 

 

 

 

 

FRIED, FRANK, HARRIS, SHRIVER & JACOBSON (LONDON) LLP

 

 

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SCHEDULE 1

 

THE ENGLISH ENTITIES

 

PART 1: THE ENGLISH LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES

 

Company Name

 

Registered number

Andover Cablevision Limited

 

01932254

Anglia Cable Communications Limited

 

02433857

Barnsley Cable Communications Limited

 

02466594

Berkhamsted Properties & Building Contractors Limited

 

00958564

Birmingham Cable Corporation Limited

 

02170379

Birmingham Cable Limited

 

02244565

Cable Camden Limited

 

01795642

Cable Enfield Limited

 

02466511

Cable Hackney & Islington Limited

 

01795641

Cable Haringey Limited

 

01808589

Cable London Limited

 

01794264

Cable Television Limited

 

00683065

Cable Thames Valley Limited

 

02254089

Cabletel (UK) Limited

 

02835551

CableTel Cardiff Limited

 

02740659

CableTel Central Hertfordshire Limited

 

02347168

CableTel Hertfordshire Limited

 

02381354

CableTel Herts and Beds Limited

 

01785533

CableTel Investments Limited

 

03157216

CableTel North Bedfordshire Limited

 

02455397

CableTel Surrey and Hampshire Limited

 

02740651

CableTel Telecom Supplies Limited

 

02919285

CableTel West Glamorgan Limited

 

00623197

CableTel West Riding Limited

 

02372564

Cambridge Cable Services Limited

 

03262220

Cambridge Holding Company Limited

 

02670603

CCL Corporate Communication Services Limited

 

02955679

Central Cable Holdings Limited

 

03008567

Columbia Management Limited

 

02361163

ComTel Cable Services Limited

 

02265315

 

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Company Name

 

Registered number

ComTel Coventry Limited

 

00277802

Continental Shelf 16 Limited

 

03005499

Credit-Track Debt Recovery Limited

 

02425789

Crystal Palace Radio Limited

 

01459745

Diamond Cable Communications Limited

 

02965241

Digital Television Network Limited

 

03288768

Doncaster Cable Communications Limited

 

02407940

DTELS Limited

 

02834403

East Coast Cable Limited

 

02352468

Ed Stone Limited

 

04170969

EMS Investments Limited

 

03373057

Enablis Limited

 

03144815

EuroBell (Holdings) Limited

 

02904215

EuroBell (IDA) Limited

 

03373001

EuroBell (No. 2) Limited

 

03405634

EuroBell (No. 3) Limited

 

03006948

EuroBell (No. 4) Limited

 

02983110

EuroBell (South West) Limited

 

01796131

EuroBell (Sussex) Limited

 

02272340

EuroBell (West Kent) Limited

 

02886001

EuroBell CPE Limited

 

02742145

EuroBell Internet Services Limited

 

03172207

EuroBell Limited

 

02983427

Filegale Limited

 

02804553

Fleximedia Limited

 

02654520

Flextech Limited

 

02688411

Flextech (1992) Limited

 

01190025

Flextech (Kindernet Investment) Limited

 

01260228

Flextech (Travel Channel) Limited

 

03427763

Flextech Broadband Limited

 

04125315

Flextech Broadcasting Limited

 

04125325

Flextech Business News Limited

 

02954531

Flextech Childrens Channel Limited

 

02678881

Flextech Communications Limited

 

02588902

Flextech Digital Broadcasting Limited

 

03298737

 

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Company Name

 

Registered number

Flextech Distribution Limited

 

02678883

Flextech Family Channel Limited

 

02856303

Flextech IVS Limited

 

02678882

Flextech Media Holdings Limited

 

02678886

Flextech Music Publishing Limited

 

03673917

Flextech Video Games Limited

 

02670821

Flextech-Flexinvest Limited

 

01192945

General Cable Group Limited

 

02872852

General Cable Holdings Limited

 

02798236

General Cable Investments Limited

 

02885920

General Cable Limited

 

02369824

Halifax Cable Communications Limited

 

02459173

Heartland Cablevision (UK) Limited

 

02415170

Heartland Cablevision II (UK) Limited

 

02443617

Herts Cable Limited

 

02390426

Interactive Digital Sales Limited

 

04257717

Lanbase European Holdings Limited

 

02529290

Lanbase Limited

 

02617729

Lichfield Cable Communications Limited

 

03016595

M&NW Network II Limited

 

06765761

M&NW Network Limited

 

06763496

Maza Limited

 

02785299

Metro Hertfordshire Limited

 

03092899

Metro South Wales Limited

 

03092897

Middlesex Cable Limited

 

02460325

Virgin Media Investments Limited

 

07108297

Virgin Media Secured Finance PLC

 

07108352

Northampton Cable Television Limited

 

02475464

NTL (Aylesbury and Chiltern) Limited

 

02416084

NTL (B) Limited

 

02735732

NTL (Broadland) Limited

 

02443741

NTL (City & Westminster) Limited

 

02809080

NTL (County Durham) Limited

 

03128449

NTL (CWC) Corporation Limited

 

02719477

NTL (CWC) Limited

 

03288998

 

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Company Name

 

Registered number

NTL (CWC) Management Limited

 

02924200

NTL (CWC) No. 2 Limited

 

02441766

NTL (CWC) No. 3 Limited

 

02441768

NTL (CWC) No. 4 Limited

 

02351068

NTL (CWC) Programming Limited

 

03403986

NTL (Ealing) Limited

 

01721894

NTL (Fenland) Limited

 

02459153

NTL (Greenwich and Lewisham) Limited

 

02254009

NTL (Hampshire) Limited

 

02351070

NTL (Harrogate) Limited

 

02404019

NTL (Harrow) Limited

 

02459179

NTL (Kent) Limited

 

02456153

NTL (Lambeth and Southwark) Limited

 

02277986

NTL (Leeds) Limited

 

02400103

NTL (Norwich) Limited

 

02332233

NTL (Peterborough) Limited

 

02332232

NTL (South East) Limited

 

01870928

NTL (South London) Limited

 

00657093

NTL (Southampton and Eastleigh) Limited

 

01866504

NTL (Sunderland) Limited

 

02402393

NTL (Thamesmead) Limited

 

02461140

NTL (Wandsworth) Limited

 

01866178

NTL (Wearside) Limited

 

02475099

NTL (West London) Limited

 

01735664

NTL (Yorcan) Limited

 

02371785

NTL (York) Limited

 

02406267

NTL Acquisition Company Limited

 

02270117

NTL Business (Ireland) Limited

 

03284482

NTL Business Limited

 

03076222

NTL Cablecomms Group Limited

 

03024703

NTL Cablecomms Holdings No. 1 Limited

 

03709869

NTL Cablecomms Holdings No. 2 Limited

 

03709840

NTL Cablecomms Limited

 

02664006

NTL Cablecomms Manchester Limited

 

02511868

NTL Cablecomms West Surrey Limited

 

02512757

 

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Company Name

 

Registered number

NTL Cambridge Limited

 

02154841

NTL Chartwell Holdings Limited

 

03290823

NTL Communications Services Limited

 

03403985

NTL Darlington Limited

 

02533674

NTL Equipment No. 1 Limited

 

02794518

NTL Equipment No. 2 Limited

 

02071491

NTL Finance Limited

 

05537678

NTL Funding Limited

 

05333722

NTL Glasgow Holdings Limited

 

04170072

NTL Holdings (Broadland) Limited

 

02427172

NTL Holdings (East London) Limited

 

02032186

NTL Holdings (Fenland) Limited

 

02427199

NTL Holdings (Leeds) Limited

 

02766909

NTL Holdings (Norwich) Limited

 

02412962

NTL Holdings (Peterborough) Limited

 

02888397

NTL Internet Limited

 

02985161

NTL Internet Services Limited

 

04038930

NTL Irish Holdings Limited

 

05313953

NTL Kirklees Holdings Limited

 

04169826

NTL Limited

 

02586701

NTL Microclock Services Limited

 

02861856

NTL Midlands Limited

 

02357645

NTL Milton Keynes Limited

 

02410808

NTL National Networks Limited

 

05174655

NTL Networks Limited

 

03045209

NTL Partcheer Company Limited

 

02861817

NTL Rectangle Limited

 

04329656

NTL Sideoffer Limited

 

02927099

NTL Solent Telephone and Cable TV Company Limited

 

02511653

NTL South Central Limited

 

02387692

NTL South Wales Limited

 

02857050

NTL Streetunique Projects Limited

 

02851203

NTL Streetunit Projects Limited

 

02851201

NTL Streetusual Services Limited

 

02851019

NTL Streetvision Services Limited

 

02851020

 

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Company Name

 

Registered number

NTL Streetvital Services Limited

 

02851021

NTL Streetwarm Services Limited

 

02851011

NTL Streetwide Services Limited

 

02851013

NTL Strikeagent Trading Limited

 

02851014

NTL Strikeamount Trading Limited

 

02851015

NTL Strikeapart Trading Limited

 

02851018

NTL Systems Limited

 

03217975

NTL Technical Support Company Limited

 

02512756

NTL Teesside Limited

 

02532188

NTL Telecom Services Limited

 

02937788

NTL UK Telephone and Cable TV Holding Company Limited

 

02511877

NTL Victoria II Limited

 

05685189

NTL Victoria Limited

 

05685196

NTL Westminster Limited

 

01735641

NTL Winston Holdings Limited

 

03290821

Oxford Cable Limited

 

02450228

Screenshop Limited

 

03529106

Secure Backup Systems Limited

 

03130333

Sheffield Cable Communications Limited

 

02465953

Southern East Anglia Cable Limited

 

02905929

Southwestern Bell International Holdings Limited

 

02378768

Stafford Communications Limited

 

02381842

Swindon Cable Limited

 

00318216

Tamworth Cable Communications Limited

 

03016602

Telewest Communications (Central Lancashire) Limited

 

01737862

Telewest Communications (Cotswolds) Limited

 

01743081

Telewest Communications (Liverpool) Limited

 

01615567

Telewest Communications (London South) Limited

 

01697437

Telewest Communications (Midlands and North West) Limited

 

02795350

Telewest Communications (Midlands) Limited

 

01882074

Telewest Communications (Nominees) Limited

 

02318746

Telewest Communications (North East) Limited

 

02378214

Telewest Communications (North West) Limited

 

02321124

Telewest Communications (South East) Limited

 

02270764

 

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Company Name

 

Registered number

Telewest Communications (South Thames Estuary) Limited

 

02270763

Telewest Communications (South West) Limited

 

02271287

Telewest Communications (St. Helens & Knowsley) Limited

 

02466599

Telewest Communications (Tyneside) Limited

 

02407676

Telewest Communications (Wigan) Limited

 

02451112

Telewest Communications Cable Limited

 

02883742

Telewest Communications Holdings Limited

 

02982404

Telewest Communications Holdco Limited

 

03761983

Telewest Communications Networks Limited

 

03071086

Telewest Limited

 

03291383

Telewest Parliamentary Holdings Limited

 

02514316

Telewest UK Limited

 

04925679

Telso Communications Limited

 

02067186

The Cable Corporation Limited

 

02075227

The Yorkshire Cable Group Limited

 

02951884

Theseus No. 1 Limited

 

02994027

Theseus No. 2 Limited

 

02994061

TVS Pension Fund Trustees Limited

 

01539051

TVS Television Limited

 

00591652

United Artists Investments Limited

 

02761569

Virgin Media Business Limited (f/k/a Imminus Limited)

 

01785381

Virgin Media Finance PLC

 

05061787

Virgin Media Investment Holdings Limited

 

03173552

Virgin Media Limited

 

02591237

Virgin Media Payments Ltd

 

06024812

Virgin Media SFA Finance Limited

 

07176280

VM Sundial Limited

 

07251197

Virgin Media Wholesale Limited (f/k/a Telewest Communications Group Limited)

 

02514287

Virgin Mobile Group (UK) Limited

 

05050748

Virgin Mobile Holdings (UK) Limited

 

03741555

Virgin Mobile Telecoms Limited

 

03707664

Virgin Net Limited

 

02833330

Vision Networks Services UK Limited

 

03135501

 

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Company Name

 

Registered number

VMIH Sub Limited

 

05316140

Wakefield Cable Communications Limited

 

02400909

Wessex Cable Limited

 

02433185

Windsor Television Limited

 

01745542

XL Debt Recovery Agency Limited

 

03303903

X-Tant Limited

 

03580901

Yorkshire Cable Communications Limited

 

02490136

Virgin Media Secured Finance PLC

 

07108352

 

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PART 2: THE ENGLISH UNLIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES

 

Company Name

 

Registered number

CableTel Newport

 

02478879

Jewel Holdings

 

03085518

NTL (CRUK)

 

02329254

NTL (CWC Holdings)

 

03922682

NTL (CWC) UK

 

02463427

NTL (V)

 

02719474

NTL Bolton Cablevision Holding Company

 

02422198

NTL Cablecomms Bolton

 

01883383

NTL Cablecomms Bromley

 

02422195

NTL Cablecomms Bury and Rochdale

 

02446183

NTL Cablecomms Cheshire

 

02379804

NTL Cablecomms Derby

 

02387713

NTL Cablecomms East Lancashire

 

02114543

NTL Cablecomms Greater Manchester

 

02407924

NTL Kirklees

 

02495460

NTL Cablecomms Lancashire No. 1

 

02453249

NTL Cablecomms Lancashire No. 2

 

02453059

NTL Cablecomms Macclesfield

 

02459067

NTL Cablecomms Oldham and Tameside

 

02446185

NTL Cablecomms Solent

 

02422654

NTL Cablecomms Staffordshire

 

02379800

NTL Cablecomms Stockport

 

02443484

NTL Cablecomms Surrey

 

02531586

NTL Cablecomms Sussex

 

02266092

NTL Cablecomms Wessex

 

02410378

NTL Cablecomms Wirral

 

02531604

NTL Derby Cablevision Holding Company

 

02422310

NTL Manchester Cablevision Holding Company

 

02455631

NTL Wirral Telephone and Cable TV Company

 

02511873

 

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PART 3: THE ENGLISH PARTNERSHIPS

 

Partnership Name

 

Constitutive Documents

 

Current Partners

Telewest Communications (North East) Partnership

 

Partnership agreement dated August 31, 1990 between (1) US Cable of Tyneside, Inc., US West U.K. Cable, Inc., US Cable of Newcastle, Inc. and Morgan Cable Limited (together trading together as “Tyneside Cable Partnership”) (2) Comment Cablevision North East Limited and (3) Comment Cablevision Tyneside Limited

 

Subsequent agreement of November 16, 1992 changed the name of the Partnership to the “United Artists Communications (North East) Partnership”.

 

Subsequent agreement of July 11, 1996 changed the name of the Partnership to the “Telewest Communications (North East) Partnership”.

 

Tyneside Cable Limited Partnership

 

Telewest Communications (North East) Limited

 

Telewest Communications (Tyneside) Limited

 

 

 

 

 

Telewest Communications (South East) Partnership

 

Joint venture agreement dated December 21, 1992 between (1) Estuaries Cable Limited Partnership (2) United Artists Communications (North Thames Estuary) Ltd and (3) United Artists Communications (South Thames Estuary) Ltd

 

Subsequent agreement of July 11, 1996 changed the name of the Partnership to the “Telewest Communications (South East) Partnership”.

 

Estuaries Cable Limited Partnership

 

Telewest Communications (South East) Limited

 

Telewest Communications (South Thames Estuary) Limited

 

 

 

 

 

Avon Cable Joint Venture

 

Joint venture agreement dated May 8, 1990 between (1) United Artists Avon Partnership Holdings Ltd, a Colorado limited partnership, U.S. West Avon Partnership Holdings, Inc. and Avon Cable Investments Ltd together trading as “Avon Cable Partnership” and (2) United Artists Communications (Avon) Ltd

 

Avon Cable Limited Partnership

 

Telewest Communications (South West) Limited

 

 

 

 

 

Telewest Communications (London South) Joint Venture

 

Joint venture agreement dated March 27, 1985 between (1) Cablevision-UK Limited and Crystal Palace Radio Limited, trading together as Croydon Cable Partnership and (2) Croydon Cable Television Limited, amended by subsequent agreement between the parties, dated March 3, 1987.

 

London South Cable Partnership

 

Telewest Communications (London South) Limited

 

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Partnership Name

 

Constitutive Documents

 

Current Partners

Telewest Communications (Cotswolds) Venture

 

Amended and restated joint venture agreement dated December 23, 1991 between (1) United Artists Cotswolds Partnership Holdings L.P. and (2) United Artists Communications (Cotswolds) Ltd

 

Subsequent agreement of July 11, 1996 changed the name of the Joint Venture to the “Telewest Communications (Cotswolds) Venture”.

 

Cotswolds Cable Limited Partnership

 

Telewest Communications (Cotswolds) Limited

 

 

 

 

 

Telewest Communications (Scotland) Venture

 

Joint venture agreement dated April 30, 1993 between (1) Edinburgh Cable Limited Partnership and (2) United Artists Communications (Scotland) Ltd

 

Subsequent agreement of July 11, 1996 changed the name of the Joint Venture to the “Telewest Communications (Scotland) Venture”.

 

Edinburgh Cable Limited Partnership

 

Telewest Communications (Scotland) Limited

 

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