At Shearman & Sterling, ex-DOJ Associate Deputy Attorney General and Senior Adviser-Technology Industries Ryan Shores rejoins as Antitrust and Litigation partner ... Andrew Smith, ex-FTC Consumer Protection Bureau, rejoins Covington & Burling as partner, Advertising and Consumer Protection, Data Privacy and Cybersecurity, and Financial Services practices ... U.S. Department of Agriculture appoints Dewayne Goldmon from National Black Growers Council as senior adviser-racial equity to USDA secretary and Andy Green, ex-Center for American Progress, as senior adviser-fair and competitive markets.

Kountoupes Denham hires Patrick Hayes, ex-Altice USA, as partner, and promotes to partner David Peluso ... Finsbury Glover hires Igor Khrestin as managing director; he's from office of ex-Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., where he advised on international cybersecurity policy ... CSG hires Patricia Elias, ex-ServiceSource, as chief people and places officer.

Under newly appointed Chief Marketing Officer Lara Richardson (see this section, Dec. 9), Crown Media expands jobs of Jennifer Lee-Temple to senior vice president-brand design, Danielle Mullin to senior vice president-brand marketing and ad sales marketing, and Lissa Grunfeld to vice president-brand production and operations; programmer also promotes, among others in marketing department -- now renamed Crown Global Brand Group -- Michael Grover to vice president-brand marketing ... With Square buying a “significant ownership stake” in Tidal for $297 million, rapper Shawn Carter, aka Jay-Z, joining the Tidal board after the deal is completed.

Women in Cable Telecommunications' new leaders for 2021 include, as chapter presidents: for Greater Philadelphia, Carol Ann Sweeney, CommScope; Greater Pittsburgh, Sherry Ott, Comcast; Greater Texas Juli Blanda, Cable One; New York, Lisa Tisdale, Tis Insights; Northern California, Jenn Banta, Comcast; Rocky Mountain, Barbara Nelms, Charter Communications; Southeast, Shelley Hoffmann, Healthgrades; and U.K., Lauren Dolan, Liberty Global; among incoming advisers are: for Greater Philadelphia, Susan Jin Davis, Comcast; Greater Pittsburgh, Danielle Erringer, Comcast; Northern California, Anju Ahuja, CableLabs, and Keith Turner, Comcast; and Washington/Baltimore, Svetlana Gans, NCTA.