40The rule of jurisdiction laid down in Article 6.1 of Regulation No 44/2001 provides that a person may, where he is one of a number of defendants, be sued in the courts for the place where any one of them is domiciled, provided that the claims are so closely connected that it is expedient to hear and determine them together in order to avoid the risk of irreconcilable judgments resulting from separate proceedings (see Case C-145/10 Painer [2011] ECR I-12533, paragraph 73).
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