Associate, Employment and Benefits Practice at Bowmans
Specialisation: South African Employment Law, Workplace Investigations & Data Protection (POPIA)
Nikita Solanki is an Associate in the Employment and Benefits Practice at Bowmans, one of Africa’s leading law firms. Based in the firm’s Cape Town office, she advises domestic and multinational employers on the full lifecycle of South African employment law, with particular depth in cross-border employment structures, workplace investigations, and the legal frameworks governing foreign employers engaging workers in South Africa through Employer of Record (EOR) arrangements.
Nikita holds an LLB from the University of Cape Town. Before joining Bowmans, she completed prestigious clerkships at the Constitutional Court of South Africa for Justice Theron and Acting Justice Dodson, giving her early and direct exposure to the highest level of South African legal reasoning on labour, equality, and constitutional rights issues.
Her practice spans both corporate advisory work and contentious matters. On the advisory side, she conducts employment due diligences, drafts and advises on employment contracts, reviews and updates workplace policies, and advises on the employment and benefits consequences of commercial transactions including sales of business, demergers, and share sales. On the contentious side, she conducts workplace investigations and assists with proceedings at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) and the Labour Court, including restraint of trade litigation for financial services clients.
Nikita also advises on a wide range of data protection matters under the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), including the cross-border transfer of personal information to holding companies abroad, the sharing of personal information with third parties, the processing of special personal information, and compliance assessments by the Information Regulator. This intersection of employment law and data protection is particularly relevant for foreign companies hiring South African employees remotely, where personal information routinely crosses jurisdictions.
