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Airbnb recently identified Latin America as the fastest growing market for its business of connecting travellers to people who have a space to rent in their homes and want extra income. As a result of stepping up operations in the region, the US based company now has 123,000 listings in Brazil and almost 90,000 active hosts. In June 2017, the company hired Maytê Ximenes to head the domestic and regional legal functions as head of legal and senior legal counsel for Brazil and Latin America. Ximenes takes over from with Bruno Lewcki who was the first counsel employed by Airbnb in Latin Ameirca and is now the company’s director of public policy in the region. The company has recently recruited a number of legal interns to further bolster the legal department’s skillset. The legal function is recognised for handling matters relating to Airbnb’s intellectual property rights and the reform of Brazil’s Copyright Act.