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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-311581"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LUMN"
cik: "0000018926"
company_name: "Lumen Technologies, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-12-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T13:50:25.987347+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lumen subsidiary prices $1.25B 8.500% Senior Notes due 2036; tender offer upsized to $1.5B

## Summary
- Level 3 Financing priced $1.25B of 8.500% Senior Notes due Jan 15, 2036; upsized from $750M.
- Concurrent tender offers for up to $1.5B aggregate purchase price of existing second-lien notes; increased from $1.0B.
- Tender offers cover four series: 4.000% 2031, 3.875% 2030, 4.500% 2030, 4.875% 2029; early tender premium $30 per $1,000.
- Consent solicitation seeks to eliminate restrictive covenants and release collateral on existing notes.
- Offering expected to close Dec 23, 2025; proceeds to fund tenders and general corporate purposes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-311581
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LUMN
- cik: 0000018926
- company_name: Lumen Technologies, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-12-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/18926/000119312525311581/0001193125-25-311581-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/18926/000119312525311581/d66988d8k.htm

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