---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-198334"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LUMN"
cik: "0000018926"
company_name: "Lumen Technologies, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-09-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T07:42:43.657020+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lumen subsidiary Level 3 Financing issues $425M of 7.000% notes to redeem $373M of 10.750% notes

## Summary
- Level 3 Financing, Inc. issued $425M aggregate principal of 7.000% First Lien Notes due 2034 on September 8, 2025.
- Proceeds together with cash will redeem all $373M of Level 3 Financing's 10.750% First Lien Notes due 2030, including premium.
- The new notes form a single series with the $2.0B Initial Notes issued August 18, 2025 under the same indenture.
- Interest on the new notes accrues from August 18, 2025 and is payable March 31 and September 30 starting March 31, 2026.
- The notes are senior secured obligations guaranteed by Level 3 Parent and certain domestic subsidiaries.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-198334
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LUMN
- cik: 0000018926
- company_name: Lumen Technologies, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-09-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/18926/000119312525198334/0001193125-25-198334-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/18926/000119312525198334/d35717d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  Lumen Technologies, Inc. incurred senior notes of $425,000,000 at 7.000% maturing due 2034.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Principal: $425,000,000
  - Rate: 7.000%
  - Maturity: due 2034
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: On September 8, 2025, Level 3 Financing, Inc. (“Level 3 Financing”), a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of Level 3 Parent, LLC (“Parent”) and an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Lumen Technologies, Inc. (“Lumen,” “us,” “we” or “our”) completed its previously-announced offering of an additional $425,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 7.000% First Lien Notes due 2034 (the “New Notes”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/18926/000119312525198334/0001193125-25-198334-index.htm

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