Boels Zanders advised the Dutch and Nigerian shareholders of Durante, a leading supplier of fish feed in Nigeria, on a joint venture in Nigeria with Nutreco, a global leader in animal nutrition and fish feed. The joint venture Skretting Nigeria will invest in the local production of extruded fish feed for Nigeria as well as the wider West African region.

Boels Zanders advised Concentra, a publisher of daily regional newspapers and free weekly door-to-door newspapers in Belgium and the Netherlands, on the acquisition of Media Groep Limburg, the leading regional newspaper publisher in the southern Dutch province of Limburg. MGL was previously owned by Mecom, a major European consumer publishing group.

Boels Zanders advised Bodycote on the acquisition of Menzing Heattreatment in the Netherlands, located in Haaksbergen. With more than 190 locations in 26 countries, Bodycote is the world's largest provider of thermal processing services. The transaction closed on 29 August 2014. Terms of the acquisition are not disclosed.