ABI – Modelo: For and Against

February 11, 2013Dear Client:The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, unsurprisingly, have opposite takes on the DOJ's lawsuit to stop the ABI - Modelo deal. The opinion page in the Wall Street Journal titled "The Most Uninteresting Lawyers" takes the DOJ to task. "Do antitrust lawyers drink beer, or for that matter grocery shop?" asks the WSJ. "Antitrust law is allegedly to prevent firms from exercising monopoly power to abuse customers. But antitrust enforcers have difficulty finding actual