---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-014926"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LUMN"
cik: "0000018926"
company_name: "Lumen Technologies, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-01-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T18:36:56.346855+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lumen amends creditor agreement, extends debt maturities to 2029+, secures $1.325B new financing

## Summary
- Agreement backed by creditors holding over $12.5B of debt, covering >70% of Lumen and Level 3 debt maturing through 2027.
- New $1.325B long-term senior secured first lien debt and a new ~$1B revolving credit facility for Lumen.
- Debt maturities extended primarily to 2029 and beyond; transactions expected to close in Q1 2024.
- Broadened creditor support from original October 31, 2023 agreement, giving Lumen more financial flexibility.
- CEO Kate Johnson states the TSA creates 'substantial runway' to execute transformation and disrupt telecom.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-014926
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LUMN
- cik: 0000018926
- company_name: Lumen Technologies, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-01-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/18926/000119312524014926/0001193125-24-014926-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/18926/000119312524014926/d717359d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Lumen Technologies, Inc. amended Amended and Restated Transaction Support Agreement with certain holders of the debt of the Company and Level 3 (effective 2024-01-22).
  - Action: amendment
  - Counterparty: certain holders of the debt of the Company and Level 3
  - Effective: 2024-01-22
  source text: On January 22, 2024, the Company, Level 3, Qwest, the Original TSA Parties and certain other holders of the debt of the Company and Level 3 (such holders, together with the Original TSA Parties, the “ Consenting Parties ” and the Consening Parties, together with the Company Parties, the “ Parties ”) entered into an Amended and Restated Transaction Support Agreement (together with all exhibits, annexes and schedules thereto, the “ A&R Transaction Support Agreement ”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/18926/000119312524014926/0001193125-24-014926-index.htm

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