---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-182730"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LUMN"
cik: "0000018926"
company_name: "Lumen Technologies, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-08-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T12:05:16.685580+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lumen's subsidiary closes $2B 7% first lien notes due 2034, redeems higher-cost debt

## Summary
- Closed $2.0B aggregate principal of 7.000% First Lien Notes due 2034 (maturity March 31, 2034).
- Proceeds used to redeem all $1.408B of 11.000% Senior Secured Notes due 2029.
- Partially redeemed $305M of 10.750% First Lien Notes due 2030.
- CFO says transaction lowers interest expense, extends maturity runway, and supports AI-era network expansion.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-182730
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LUMN
- cik: 0000018926
- company_name: Lumen Technologies, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-08-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/18926/000119312525182730/0001193125-25-182730-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/18926/000119312525182730/d905181d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  Lumen Technologies, Inc. incurred senior notes of $2.0 billion aggregate principal amount with U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as collateral agent at 7.000% maturing 2034.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Principal: $2.0 billion aggregate principal amount
  - Counterparty: U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as collateral agent
  - Rate: 7.000%
  - Maturity: 2034
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: completed its previously-announced upsized offering of $2.0 billion aggregate principal amount of its 7.000% First Lien Notes due 2034 (the “Notes”); and • in connection therewith, entered into an indenture (the “Indenture”) with U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as collateral agent, dated August 18, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/18926/000119312525182730/0001193125-25-182730-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.