--- title: "Contrarius Investment Advisory Limited: UK sponsor licence status" canonical: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/contrarius-investment-advisory-limited-windsor-707991 register_status: active register_as_of: 2026-10-30 publisher: Borderless (https://www.getborderless.co.uk) source: UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors (Open Government Licence v3); Companies House --- # Contrarius Investment Advisory Limited: UK sponsor licence status > As of 30 October 2026, Contrarius Investment Advisory Limited (Companies House 06581705, Windsor) holds an A-rated Worker sponsor licence covering the Skilled Worker route and has appeared on the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors since at least 4 August 2013 (source: Borderless, from the GOV.UK register of licensed sponsors and Companies House). ## Key facts - Register status: Active: on the current register and licensed to sponsor workers - Licence type and rating: Worker (A rating) - Visa routes: Skilled Worker - First seen on the register: 4 August 2013 or earlier - Industry: Financial Services - Town: Windsor - Registered address: 22 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1LS - Companies House number: 06581705 (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06581705) - Website: https://www.contrarius.com - Register data as of: 30 October 2026 (GOV.UK register of licensed sponsors, re-read daily) - Web page: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/contrarius-investment-advisory-limited-windsor-707991 ## Where this sponsor sits - One of 130 licensed sponsors in Windsor: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/in/windsor - One of 7,429 in Financial Services: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/industry/financial-services - Among 122,278 Skilled Worker sponsors: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/route/skilled-worker ## Companies House changes since it joined the register 14 changes worth checking, checked 31 October 2026, newest first: - 27 Nov 2023: New director appointed: RAUBENHEIMER, Simon Andre. Director change recorded on 27 Nov 2023. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 27 Nov 2023: New director appointed: WATKINS, Nathaniel Ashley Thomas. Director change recorded on 27 Nov 2023. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 31 Oct 2021: Director resigned: POSEN, Kevin. Director change recorded on 31 Oct 2021. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 7 Dec 2020: New shares issued (allotment). Share capital filing recorded on 7 Dec 2020. No new majority owner was notified, so this is usually routine. If it did pass a controlling interest to someone new, the licence does not transfer automatically, and a new licence application may be needed within 20 working days. - 30 Aug 2019: New director appointed: POSEN, Kevin. Director change recorded on 30 Aug 2019. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 30 Jun 2018: Director resigned: WATSON, Christopher Robert. Director change recorded on 30 Jun 2018. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 30 Jun 2017: Director resigned: BARKHUYSEN, Marcel Francois. Director change recorded on 30 Jun 2017. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 1 Jun 2017: New director appointed: WATSON, Christopher Robert. Director change recorded on 1 Jun 2017. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 1 Jun 2017: New director appointed: CAREW, Peter Gareth. Director change recorded on 1 Jun 2017. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 8 Apr 2016: Secretary resigned: DE KOCK, Matthys. Company secretary change recorded on 8 Apr 2016. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 8 Apr 2016: New secretary appointed: HALL, Claire Louise. Company secretary change recorded on 8 Apr 2016. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 6 Apr 2016: Notification of Stephen Craig Mildenhall as a person with significant control. New majority owner or controller recorded on 6 Apr 2016. If control of your organisation has passed to a new owner, the licence does not transfer automatically, and a new licence application may be needed within 20 working days. - 14 Mar 2016: New director appointed: BARKHUYSEN, Marcel Francois. Director change recorded on 14 Mar 2016. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 5 Apr 2014: Director resigned: POSEN, Kevin. Director change recorded on 5 Apr 2014. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. Companies House cannot show who holds the licence roles or whether a change was reported to the Home Office, so these are prompts to check against your own records, not findings. ## Sponsored jobs No listings matched yet. Job listings are harvested daily from Reed, Adzuna, Jooble and Careerjet and matched back to the register by employer name. ## Common questions about Contrarius Investment Advisory Limited ### Is Contrarius Investment Advisory Limited a licensed UK visa sponsor? Yes. Contrarius Investment Advisory Limited in Windsor is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors and has been since at least 2013. It can sponsor workers from overseas, but not every job it advertises comes with sponsorship. ### What visa routes can Contrarius Investment Advisory Limited sponsor? Contrarius Investment Advisory Limited is licensed for Skilled Worker. Its licence rating on the register is "Worker (A rating)". ### Where is Contrarius Investment Advisory Limited based? The register lists Contrarius Investment Advisory Limited at 22 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1LS. This is usually the head office; the job itself may be somewhere else. ### How current is this information? This page uses the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors, as published on 30 October 2026, and Companies House records for company number 06581705. We update it daily. Always confirm a licence status on GOV.UK. ## About this data - Source register: UK Home Office, Register of Licensed Sponsors (Workers), https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-of-licensed-sponsors-workers (Open Government Licence v3). GOV.UK is authoritative; confirm there before relying on a licence status. - Company records: Companies House, https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/ - Published by Borderless (https://www.getborderless.co.uk), an OISC-regulated UK immigration provider. This is public register data, not legal advice. - "First seen on the register" is when this organisation first appeared in our data, not the official licence grant date. - Web page: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/contrarius-investment-advisory-limited-windsor-707991 - This fact sheet: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/contrarius-investment-advisory-limited-windsor-707991.md - Site overview for AI agents: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/llms.txt - Something wrong? Request a correction from the web page and the Borderless team will check it.