PRINT THIS PAGE Monthly Private Equity Report: March 200830/04/2008. Source: ZEPHYR, Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing . 
The negative impact of credit market turmoil on private equity deals was evident yet again in March, with both volume and value continuing a downward trajectory that began at the start of the year, according to this monthly global private equity report prepared by ZEPHYR and Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing exclusively for AltAssets. On a global scale the events of the last 12 months brought a 60 per cent crash in the value of leveraged buyouts, with the deals worth just USD 29,715 million in March 2008. Transaction volumes fell by a less marked but no less concerning 40 per cent.
The pattern of decline became entrenched over the first quarter, when deal numbers fell by a fifth and the transactions lost almost a third of their value. Before this point deal activity had been erratic and private equity-backed purchases had been open to gains both in terms of volume and value.
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