Lawrence Graham’s Nick Heather and Tom Nicholls advised BSS, distributor of plumbing and pipeline products, in its acquisition of MEP distributors for an initial consideration of £500,000. MacRoberts’ Colin Mackay advised MEP.

Simmons & Simmons’ Alistair Bird and Richard May advised Booker on the sale of certain assets of its Booker Wholesale Foods to Palmer & Harvey McLane. The value of the deal was £4.4m. Palmer also has an option to acquire vehicles and computer equipment for a value of up to £3m. Trowers & Hamlins’ Amir Hashemi and Daniel Hooke advised Palmer & Harvey.