Add-on Acquisition • Information Technology

Lumen Acquires Tier 3

On November 19, 2013, Lumen acquired information technology company Tier 3 for 200M USD

Acquisition Context
  • This is Lumen’s 3rd transaction in the Information Technology sector.
  • This is Lumen’s 5th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Lumen’s 9th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Lumen’s 1st transaction in Washington.

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M&A Deal Summary

Date November 19, 2013
Target Tier 3
Sector Information Technology
Buyer(s) Lumen
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 200M USD

Target Company

Tier 3

Bellevue, Washington, United States
Tier 3, Inc., delivers enterprise class cloud software and federated cloud services to businesses globally. The Bellevue, Wash.-based company provides an enterprise-grade virtual private cloud software platform, enhanced by a framework-agnostic cloud orchestration layer to enable IT automation and agility.
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Buyer Overview 1

Buyer

Lumen

Monroe, Louisiana, United States

Category Company
Founded 1968
Sector Communications
Employees25,000
Revenue 13.1B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
CenturyLink office location in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota.
CenturyLink office location in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota.

Lumen is an integrated communications company engaged in providing an array of communications services to residential, business, governmental and wholesale customers. CenturyLink's communications services include local and long-distance, network access, private line (including special access), public access, broadband, data, managed hosting (including cloud hosting), colocation, wireless and video services. In certain local and regional markets, the Company also provides local access and fiber transport services to competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) and security monitoring. Lumen was established in 1968 and is based in Monroe, Louisiana.


Deal Context for Buyer #
Overall 9 of 17
Sector: Information Technology 3 of 8
Type: Add-on Acquisition 7 of 15
State: Washington 1 of 1
Country: United States 9 of 16
Year: 2013 2 of 2
Size (of disclosed) 5 of 6
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DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-12-08 DataGardens

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