The team at Somerset Ryckmans has extensive experience and expertise in diverse areas of legal practice, with an emphasis on insolvency litigation.

We work hard to deliver superior legal representation with the attentiveness and responsiveness that only a small firm can offer.


Marc Ryckmans

Marc is a multidiscipline lawyer who works across a range of practices, and has more than 25 years of experience acting for and against administrators, liquidators, receivers, company directors, debtors and creditors in the context of voluntary administrations, creditors’ voluntary liquidations, court liquidations and receiverships. He also provides broad transactional support for corporate, commercial and property practices.

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Marc has a diverse client base that includes major accounting firms, commercial and investment banks, trading houses, insurance companies, publicly listed companies, insolvency investors, entrepreneurs and high net-worth individuals.

He has been involved in a number of high profile and complex matters, ranging from multi-million dollar real estate and leasing transactions to restructuring the gold hedge book of Australia’s largest miner.

Marc graduated from law from the University of Sydney in 1989 and is a member of the Law Society of New South Wales. He was admitted to practice in Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia in 1990. Marc is a frequent speaker and writer on subjects related to insolvency. He also serves on the boards of several private companies.

Contact Marc

Phone +61 2 9299 2669
Email mryckmans@srlegal.com.au


Louis Ryckmans

Louis has had more than 25 years experience in all aspects of civil litigation, including trying numerous corporate and commercial cases in New York in both state and federal trial and appellate courts. Louis’ experience includes representation of investment banks, airlines, foreign and domestic companies, insurance companies, individual investors and entrepreneurs.

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Louis earned his law degrees from University of Sydney (LL.B.) and Fordham University in New York (LL.M.) in International Business and Trade Law. He was admitted to practice as a solicitor in both the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia in 1990. Louis was also admitted to practice in the Courts of the State of New York and before the federal courts for both the Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York in 1994.

Louis returned to Australia in 2003 and worked at Blake Dawson Waldron and Abbott Tout. He is a member of the Law Society of New South Wales, the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

Contact Louis

Phone +61 2 9299 0474
Email lryckmans@srlegal.com.au


Nicholas Fasullo

Nicholas has more than 12 years of legal experience, specialising mainly in commercial litigation. Nicholas’ main areas of practice are insolvency, construction disputes, corporations and banking law, estate disputes and employment matters. Nicholas has been with the firm, in two separate stints, for over 9 years. Nicholas has also previously worked as a senior associate for 3 years in the litigation team of a well respected mid-tier CBD firm. Nicholas appears in various jurisdiction both unled and instructing junior and senior counsel.

Contact Nicholas

Phone 0432 730 188
Email nfasullo@srlegal.com.au


Gia Kaur

Gia has been a solicitor with Somerset Ryckmans since 2010 and has extensive experience in debt recovery, conveyancing, wills, probate and estate. 

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Gia graduated from University of Western Sydney in 2006 with Bachelors of Law and Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice in addition to her Bachelors of Arts. Gia was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 2007.

Prior to joining Somerset Ryckmans as a Senior Associate, Gia worked for another well-respected Sydney law firm. Gia is multilingual and fluent in Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu.

Contact Gia

Phone +61 2 9299 2000
Email gkaur@srlegal.com.au


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Anna Kuznetsova

Anna has been a Solicitor with Somerset Ryckmans since 2018. Her areas of expertise include insolvency, corporations, civil litigation and bankruptcy.

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Anna has more than 15 years of legal experience. Prior to joining Somerset Ryckmans, Anna had her own practice in Russia where she specialised in commercial litigation and insolvency law as a solicitor and at the bar. Anna earned her law degree in Russia in 2006. She obtained a Juris Doctor degree with distinction from the University of NSW in 2017. Anna has been admitted as a barrister in Russia since 2007 and as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales since 2018.

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Phone +61 2 9299 2000
Email akuznetsova@srlegal.com.au

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