On the record this week: four new deals and a full source check of the Transactions Tracker

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On the record this week: four new deals and a full source check of the Transactions Tracker

Four deals added or completed, from the Renaissance joint venture to an EGP 10bn financing in Cairo, and the start of a source check of all 1,138 transactions on the record.

October 31, 2026

In short: four transactions were added to or completed on The Meridian’s record this week, with disclosed values of US$800 million and EGP 10 billion. We have also started a full source check of every transaction on the record, and from today each record shows whether its source has been linked.

New on the record

Nigeria · Oil and gas. TotalEnergies completed its US$800 million sale of a 10% interest in the Renaissance joint venture to Vaaris. TEMPLARS for TotalEnergies.
Nigeria · Oil and gas. SEEPCo, through Apex Global Energy, acquired Eni’s Agip Energy and Natural Resources, which holds 5% of the same joint venture. TEMPLARS for the buyer.
Egypt · Banking and finance. Banque Misr extended an EGP 10 billion long-term facility to Founders Real Estate Marketing, a Hyde Park Developments subsidiary, to acquire a residential project from the New Urban Communities Authority. Baker McKenzie Cairo for the bank.
Nigeria · Private equity. Kuramo Africa Opportunity Fund IV reached first close with Nigerian pension fund commitments, towards a US$100 million target. Solt Legal for Kuramo.

Read the analysis: the Renaissance joint venture changes hands and pension money moves into naira private equity.

The source check

The Meridian’s rankings are calculated from transaction records, so every record needs a source a reader can check. This week we reviewed the record and found that 74 of 1,138 published transactions linked to a public source. We have begun checking the rest, newest first.

In the first 50 records checked, 16 now carry public sources and two dates were corrected where the deal was older than its record date.
Many records describe confidential instructions submitted by firms, such as unnamed lenders or unreported registry matters. No public source exists for these, so we are asking the firms concerned to confirm each matter, its date and their role.
Every transaction page now shows its source status. A record marked as awaiting a source is not removed, but readers can see that it has not yet been checked.

Firms can speed this up. If your firm is credited on a record without a source, send us the announcement, filing or press report, or confirm that the matter is confidential.

The index

The Africa Legal Market Activity Index recalculates whenever a record is published or corrected. Records whose only date is an import date are left out, so the index measures deals, not data entry.

The Meridian Editorial Team

Andrew U. — Editorial Director | Damilare A. — Intelligence Director | Amaka Nwoye — Senior Legal Research Analyst | Salome Mensah — Market Intelligence Analyst | May Ndlovu — Editorial Researcher | K.K. Lawal — Senior Correspondent | The Meridian’s editorial team brings experience across West African legal markets, commercial law, market intelligence and structured research. Our standard is simple: evidence first, independent judgement, and analysis grounded in how legal work happens in practice.