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EXHIBIT 4(s)
VOID AFTER 5:00PM, NEW YORK, NY
TIME, ON MAY 31, 2005
THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "ACT"), OR UNDER THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE.
THESE SECURITIES ARE SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFERABILITY AND RESALE AND
MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED OR RESOLD EXCEPT AS PERMITTED UNDER THE ACT AND THE
APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, PURSUANT TO REGISTRATION OR EXEMPTION
THEREFROM. THE ISSUER OF THESE SECURITIES MAY REQUIRE AN OPINION OF COUNSEL IN
FORM AND SUBSTANCE SATISFACTORY TO THE ISSUER TO THE EFFECT THAT ANY PROPOSED
TRANSFER OR RESALE IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE ACT AND ANY APPLICABLE STATE
SECURITIES LAWS.
THE NETPLEX GROUP, INC.
Warrant for the Purchase of Shares of Common Stock
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No. RII-001 Up to 15,000 Shares of
Date: May 15, 2000 Common Stock, $.001 par value
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, THE NETPLEX GROUP, INC., a New York corporation
(the "Company"), with its principal office at 1800 Robert Fulton Drive, Suite
250, Reston, Virginia 20191, hereby certifies that Roseland II L.L.C., its
assignees, successors and assigns (the "Holder") is entitled, subject to the
provisions of this Warrant, to purchase from the Company, at any time after the
date hereof and continuing for a period of five (5) years (the "Expiration
Date"), up to the number of fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock
of the Company set forth above, subject to adjustment as hereinafter provided.
The Holder may purchase such number of shares of Common Stock at a
purchase price per share (as appropriately adjusted pursuant to Section 6
hereof) of $7.72 (the "Exercise Price"), subject to the limitations set forth in
Section 1. The term "Common Stock" shall mean the aforementioned Common Stock of
the Company, together with any other equity securities that may be issued by the
Company in addition thereto or in substitution therefor as provided herein.
The number of shares of Common Stock to be received upon the exercise
or exchange of this Warrant and the price to be paid for a share of Common Stock
are subject to adjustment from time to time as hereinafter set forth. The shares
of Common Stock deliverable upon such exercise or exchange, as adjusted from
time to time, are hereinafter sometimes referred to as "Warrant Shares."
Section 1. Exercise of Warrant. This Warrant may be exercised in whole
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or in part on any business day on or before the Expiration Date by presentation
and surrender hereof to the Company at its principal office at the address set
forth in the initial paragraph hereof (or at such other
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address as the Company may hereafter notify the Holder in writing) with the
Purchase Form annexed hereto duly executed and accompanied by proper payment of
the Exercise Price in lawful money of the United States of America in the form
of a check, subject to collection, for the number of Warrant Shares specified in
the Purchase Form. If this Warrant should be exercised in part only, the Company
shall, upon surrender of this Warrant, execute and deliver a new Warrant
evidencing the rights of the Holder thereof to purchase the balance of the
Warrant Shares purchasable hereunder. Upon receipt by the Company of this
Warrant and such Purchase Form, together with proper payment of the Exercise
Price, at such office, the Holder shall be deemed to be the holder of record of
the Warrant Shares, notwithstanding that the stock transfer books of the Company
shall then be closed or that certificates representing such Warrant Shares shall
not then be actually delivered to the Holder. The Company shall pay any and all
documentary stamp or similar issue or transfer taxes payable in respect of the
issue or delivery of the Warrant Shares. The Company shall cause the Warrant
Shares to be delivered to the Holder within five (5) days after the receipt of
the Purchase Form and payment of the Exercise Price.
Section 2. Reservation of Shares. The Company hereby agrees that at
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all times there shall be reserved for issuance and delivery upon exercise or
exchange of this Warrant all shares of its Common Stock or other shares of
capital stock of the Company from time to time issuable upon exercise or
exchange of this Warrant. All such shares shall be duly authorized and, when
issued upon the exercise or exchange of the Warrant in accordance with the terms
hereof, shall be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of
all liens, security interests, charges and other encumbrances or restrictions on
sale (other than any restrictions on sale pursuant to applicable federal and
state securities laws) and free and clear of all preemptive rights.
Section 3. Fractional Interest
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The Company will not issue a fractional share of Common Stock upon
exercise or exchange of this Warrant. Instead, the Company will deliver its
check for the current market value of the fractional share. The current market
value of a fraction of a share is determined as follows: multiply the Market
Price (as defined in Section 6(g) below) of a full share by the fraction of a
share and round the result to the nearest cent.
Section 4. Assignment or Loss of Warrant.
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(a) Except as provided in Section 9, the Holder of this Warrant
shall be entitled, without obtaining the consent of the Company, to assign its
interest in this Warrant, or any of the Warrant Shares, in whole or in part to
any bona fide affiliate, officer, director or partner of Holder, provided,
however, that the transferee, prior to any such transfer, agrees in writing, in
form and substance satisfactory to the Company, to be bound by the terms of this
Agreement as if originally a party hereto and provides the Company with an
opinion of counsel in such form reasonably acceptable to the Company and its
counsel, that such transfer would not be in violation of the Act or any
applicable state securities or blue sky laws. Subject to the provisions hereof
and of Section 9, upon surrender of this Warrant to the Company or at the office
of its stock transfer agent or warrant agent, with the Assignment Form annexed
hereto duly executed and funds sufficient to pay any transfer or other tax
payable in respect thereof, the Company shall, without charge, execute and
deliver a new Warrant or Warrants in the name of the assignee or assignees named
in such instrument of assignment and, if the Holder's entire interest is not
being assigned, in the name of the Holder, and this Warrant shall promptly be
canceled.
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(b) Upon receipt of evidence satisfactory to the Company of the loss,
theft, destruction or mutilation of this Warrant, and (in the case of loss,
theft or destruction) of indemnification satisfactory to the Company, and upon
surrender and cancellation of this Warrant, if mutilated, the Company shall
execute and deliver a new Warrant of like tenor and date, provided, however,
that Holder shall reimburse the Company for its reasonable costs and expenses to
do so.
Section 5. Rights of the Holder. The Holder shall not, by virtue
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hereof, be entitled to any rights of a shareholder in the Company, either at law
or equity, and the rights of the Holder are limited to those set forth in this
Warrant. Nothing contained in this Warrant shall be construed as conferring upon
the Holder hereof the right to vote or to consent or to receive notice as a
shareholder of the Company on any matters or with respect to any rights
whatsoever as a shareholder of the Company. No dividends or interest shall be
payable or accrued in respect of this Warrant or the interest represented hereby
or the Warrant Shares purchasable hereunder until, and only to the extent that,
this Warrant shall have been exercised or exchanged in accordance with its
terms.
Section 6. Adjustment of Exercise Price and Number of Shares. The
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number and kind of securities purchasable upon the exercise or exchange of this
Warrant and the Exercise Price shall be subject to adjustment from time to time
upon the occurrence of certain events, as follows:
(a) Adjustment for Change in Capital Stock. If at any time after
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May 15, 2000, the Company:
(A) pays a dividend or makes a distribution on its Common
Stock, in either case in shares of its Common Stock;
(B) subdivides its outstanding shares of Common Stock into a
greater number of shares;
(C) combines its outstanding shares of Common Stock into a
smaller number of shares; or
(D) makes a distribution on its Common Stock either in
property or in shares of its capital stock other than
Common Stock;
then the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to such action shall be
adjusted so that the Holder may receive, upon exercise or exchange of this
Warrant and payment of the same aggregate consideration, the number of shares of
capital stock or other property of the Company which the Holder would have owned
immediately following such action if the Holder had exercised or exchanged the
Warrant immediately prior to such action.
The adjustment shall become effective immediately after the record
date in the case of a dividend or distribution and immediately after the
effective date in the case of a subdivision, combination or reclassification.
This subsection does not apply to cash dividends or cash distributions
paid out of consolidated current or retained earnings as shown on the books of
the Company and paid in the ordinary course of business.
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(b) Deferral of Issuance of Payment. In any case in which an event
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covered by this Section 6 shall require that an adjustment in the Exercise Price
be made effective as of a record date, the Company may elect to defer until the
actual occurrence of such event (i) issuing to the Holder, if this Warrant is
exercised after such record date, the shares of Common Stock and other capital
stock of the Company, if any, issuable upon such exercise over and above the
shares of Common Stock or other capital stock of the Company, if any, issuable
upon such exercise on the basis of the Exercise Price in effect prior to such
adjustment, and (ii) paying to the Holder by check any amount in lieu of the
issuance of fractional shares pursuant to Section 3.
(c) When No Adjustment Required. No adjustment need be made for a change
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in the par value of the Common Stock.
(d) Market Price. The "Market Price" per share of Common Stock is the
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last reported sales price of the Common Stock as reported by NASDAQ, or the
primary national securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then quoted;
provided, however, that if quotes for the Common Stock are not reported by
NASDAQ and the Common Stock is neither traded on the NASDAQ National Marker, on
a national securities exchange, on the NASDAQ Small Cap Market nor on the OTC
Electronic Bulletin Board, the price referred to above shall be the price
reflected in the over-the-counter market as reported by the National Quotation
Bureau, Inc. or any organization performing a similar function, and provided,
further, that if the Common Stock is not then publicly traded, the Market Price
shall equal the Conversion Price.
(e) No Adjustment Upon Exercise of Warrants. No adjustments shall be made
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under any Section herein in connection with the issuance of Warrant Shares upon
exercise or exchange of the Warrants.
(f) Common Stock Defined. Whenever reference is made in Section 6(a) to
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the issue of shares of Common Stock, the term "Common Stock" shall include any
equity securities of any class of the Company hereinafter authorized which shall
not be limited to a fixed sum or percentage in respect of the right of the
thereof to participate in dividends or distributions of assets upon the
voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company.
Subject to the provisions of Section 8 hereof, however, shares issuable upon
exercise or exchange hereof shall include only shares of the class designated as
Common Stock of the Company as of the date hereof or shares of any class or
classes resulting from any reclassification or reclassifications thereof or as a
result of any corporate reorganization as provided for in Section 8 hereof.
Section 7. Officers' Certificate. Whenever the Exercise Price shall be
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adjusted as required by the provisions of Section 6, the Company shall forthwith
file in the custody of its secretary or an assistant secretary at its principal
office an officers' certificate showing the adjusted Exercise Price determined
as herein provided, setting forth in reasonable detail the facts requiring such
adjustment and the manner of computing such adjustment. Each such officers'
certificate shall be signed by the chairman, president or chief financial
officer of the Company and by the secretary or any assistant secretary of the
Company. Each such Officers' certificate shall be made available at all
reasonable times for inspection by the Holder or any holder of a Warrant
executed and delivered pursuant to Section 4 hereof.
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Section 8. Reclassification, Reorganization, Consolidation or Merger.
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In the event of any reclassification, capital reorganization or other change of
outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company (other than a subdivision or
combination of the outstanding Common Stock and other than a change in the par
value of the Common Stock) or in the event of any consolidation or merger of the
Company with or into another corporation (other than a merger in which merger
the Company is the continuing corporation and that does not result in any
reclassification, capital reorganization or other change of outstanding shares
of Common Stock of the class issuable upon exercise or exchange of this Warrant)
or in the event of any sale, lease, transfer or conveyance to another
corporation of the property and assets of the Company as an entirety or
substantially as an entirety, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause
effective provisions to be made so that the Holder shall have the right
thereafter, by exercising this Warrant, to purchase the kind and amount of
shares of stock and other securities and property (including cash) receivable
upon such reclassification, capital reorganization and other change,
consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance by a holder of the number of shares of
Common Stock that would have been received upon exercise or exchange of this
Warrant immediately prior to such reclassification, capital reorganization,
change, consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance. Any such provision shall
include provisions for adjustments in respect of such shares of stock and other
securities and property that shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable
to the adjustments provided for in this Warrant. The foregoing provisions of
this Section 8 shall similarly apply to successive reclassifications, capital
reorganizations and changes of shares of Common Stock and to successive
consolidations, mergers, sales or conveyances.
Section 9. Transfer to Comply with the Securities Act of 1933;
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Registration Rights.
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9.1 No sale, transfer, assignment, hypothecation or other disposition
of this Warrant or of the Warrant Shares shall be made unless any such transfer,
assignment or other disposition will comply with the rules and statutes
administered by the Securities and Exchange Commission and (i) a Registration
Statement under the Act including such Shares is currently in effect, or (ii) in
the written opinion of counsel, which counsel and which opinion shall be
reasonably satisfactory to the Company, a current registration Statement is not
required for such disposition of the shares. Each stock certificate representing
Warrant Shares issued upon exercise or exchange of this Warrant shall bear a
legend in substantially the following form (unless, in the opinion of counsel,
which counsel and which opinion shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Company,
such legend is not required):
"THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "ACT"), OR
UNDER THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE. THESE SECURITIES ARE
SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFERABILITY AND RESALE AND MAY
NOT BE TRANSFERRED OR RESOLD EXCEPT AS PERMITTED UNDER THE
ACT AND THE APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, PURSUANT TO
REGISTRATION OR EXEMPTION THEREFROM. THE ISSUER OF THESE
SECURITIES MAY REQUIRE AN OPINION OF COUNSEL IN FORM AND
SUBSTANCE SATISFACTORY TO THE ISSUER TO THE EFFECT THAT ANY
PROPOSED TRANSFER OR RESALE IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE ACT AND
ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS."
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9.2 The Company agrees that during the term of this Warrant, the Company
shall register the Warrant Shares with any subsequent registration statement
filed by the Company. Holder acknowledges that, in the event a transfer of the
Warrant occurs subsequent to the Company's registration of the Warrant Shares,
the registration of the Warrant Shares may not be effective as to the transferee
of this Warrant. In such event, the Company agrees to file a post-effective
amendment to such registration statement, or take such other reasonable action,
which in the Company's sole discretion, may be required to make such
registration effective as to the transferee, provided the Holder reimburses the
Company for its costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys fees, to
effectuate the registration.
Section 10. Modification and Waiver. Except as otherwise provided herein,
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any term of this Warrant may be amended, and the observance of any term of this
Warrant may be waived (either generally or in a particular instance, either
retroactively or prospectively, and either for a specified period of time or
indefinitely), with the written consent of the Company and the Holder of this
Warrant. Any amendment or waiver effected in accordance with this section shall
be binding upon each future Holder of this Warrant and the Company.
Section 11. Notices. All notices and other communications required or
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permitted hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed effectively given
upon personal delivery, on the first business day following mailing by overnight
courier, or on the fifth day following mailing by registered or certified mail,
return receipt requested, postage prepaid, addressed to the Company at the
address indicated therefor in the first paragraph of this Warrant and the Holder
at its address as shown on the books of the Company; provided, however, that
presentation of a Purchase Form and payment of any Exercise Price shall be
effective only upon receipt by the Company.
Section 12. Description Headings and Governing Law. The titles of the
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paragraphs and subparagraphs of this Warrant are for convenience of reference
only and are not to be considered in construing this Warrant. This Warrant shall
be governed by and construed under the laws of the State of New York without
regard to any otherwise applicable principles of conflicts of laws.
Section 13. Entire Agreement. This Warrant and the other documents
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delivered pursuant hereto constitute the full and entire understanding and
agreement among the parties with regard to the subjects hereof and no party
shall be liable or bound to any other party in any manner by any
representations, warranties, convenants or agreements except as specifically set
forth herein or therein. Nothing in this Warrant, express or implied, is
intended to confer upon any party, other than the parties hereto and their
respective successors and assigns, any rights, remedies, obligations, or
liabilities under or by reason of this Warrant, except as expressly provided
herein.
Section 14. Severability. In the event that any provision of this Warrant
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shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, it shall, to the extent practicable,
be modified so as to make it valid, legal and enforceable and to retain as
nearly as practicable the intent of the parties, and the validity, legality, and
enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or
impaired thereby. To the extent permitted by law, the parties hereto waive the
benefit of any provision of law that renders any provision of this Warrant
invalid or unenforceable in any respect.
Section 15. No Waiver. No waiver by any party to this Warrant of any one
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or more defaults by any other party or parties in the performance of any of the
provisions hereof shall operate or be construed as a waiver of any future
default or defaults, whether of a like or different
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nature. Except as expressly provided herein, no failure or delay on the part of
any party in exercising any right, power or remedy hereunder shall operate as a
waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right,
power or remedy preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise
of any other right, power or remedy.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has duly caused this Warrant to be
signed by its duly authorized officer and to be dated as of this 15th day of
May, 2000.
THE NETPLEX GROUP, INC.
By: /s/ Pamela Fredette
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Pamela Fredette
President
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PURCHASE FORM
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Dated ___________, _____
The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise the within
Warrant to purchase ___________ shares of Common Stock and hereby makes payment
of _____________ in payment of the exercise price thereof.
Signature:______________________
Name:___________________________
Title:__________________________
Name of Holder:__________________________
Address:_________________________________
_________________________________
Taxpayer ID#:____________________________
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ASSIGNMENT FORM
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Dated __________, ____
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, ______________ hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto
_______________________________________ (the "Assignee"), Taxpayer ID#__________
(please type or print in block letters)
________________________________________________________________________________
(insert address)
its right to purchase up to ___________ shares of Common Stock represented by
this Warrant and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ________________
Attorney, to transfer the same on the books of the Company, with full power of
substitution in the premises.
Signature:______________________
Name:___________________________
Title:__________________________
Name of Holder:_________________________
Address:________________________________
________________________________
Taxpayer ID#:___________________________
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