The term “news dump” refers to the release of information at a time when few are paying attention. It has long been employed by companies looking to avoid scrutiny, but Halliburton Co. may take it to a new level this holiday season.

With Christmas and New Year’s happening on the weekends this year, the Friday afternoons ahead of those holidays offer an extra-special opportunity, and Halliburton HAL, -5.10% is taking full advantage. Between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. Eastern time on the Friday evening before Christmas, the company divulged two interesting bits of news: A bid for a Russian company and the settlement of a lawsuit with origins that stretch back to when Dick Cheney was chief executive of the company.

The first of Halliburton’s two announcements focused on the proposed acquisition of Novomet Oil Services Holding Ltd., a drilling-equipment company based in Perm, Russia. The company announced that it had petitioned the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia to find out if the acquisition, which has not been officially completed, would face resistance from Russian regulators.

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Halliburton’s attempted purchase arrives amid strained relations between the U.S. and Russia: The U.S. government alleges Russia attempted to influence the recent presidential election through online attacks after disagreements about the war in Syria and U.S. sanctions against Russia for its intervention in Ukraine.

About a half-hour after that release, Halliburton disclosed the end of a class-action lawsuit by investors that had twice been considered by the U.S. Supreme Court during a 14-year legal battle. Halliburton agreed to pay investors $100 million to settle the lawsuit, which claimed the company misled investors about accounting for long-term construction projects, as well as the scope of potential liability from lawsuits related to asbestos claims against Dresser Industries, which then-CEO Cheney acquired in 1998. Halliburton would eventually settle all of its asbestos-related claims for about $5 billion in 2005.

The investor lawsuit would last much longer, with the case reaching the top court in the land in 2011 and 2014, when Halliburton argued that the Supreme Court should overturn or modify an important precedent for investor class-action lawsuits. While Halliburton lost the 2014 argument in a 9-0 ruling, the decision is believed to have provided some relief for companies facing such suits.

Halliburton was appealing yet another decision by a lower court when it finally reached a settlement. In a terse press release that barely topped 200 words, Halliburton managed to find space to note that nearly half the award would be funded by insurance, and that the plaintiffs’ lawyers would take their cut out of the settlement.

Halliburton responded to an email seeking a reason for releasing this news late on a Friday afternoon with this message: “We distributed the news when we were able and prepared to do so.”

But such behavior is not new. The #FridayNightDump is a known avenue for companies, and the wave of filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission at such times is exposed weekly by Footnoted, which tracks SEC filings.

As the site’s Twitter account pointed out Friday, though, the 2016 holiday schedule provides the opportunity for a special double Friday night dump.

Because Monday was a recognized holiday, Halliburton has until Friday evening at 7 p.m. Eastern time—when most market watchers will be finalizing plans for New Year’s Eve—to file disclosures of the same news with the SEC. You should probably expect those filings to arrive as late as possible.