WARRANT
THESE SECURITIES AND THE
SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON THEIR EXERCISE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “
SECURITIES ACT ”), AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED UNLESS
PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT, A "NO-ACTION" LETTER FROM THE UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (THE “ COMMISSION
” OR THE “ SEC ”) WITH RESPECT TO SUCH
TRANSFER, A TRANSFER MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144 OF THE
COMMISSION, OR AN OPINION OF COUNSEL SATISFACTORY TO THE ISSUER TO
THE EFFECT THAT ANY SUCH TRANSFER IS EXEMPT FROM SUCH
REGISTRATION.
Somerset International Group,
Inc.
WARRANT NO. September 2008
101
Dated: September 8,
2008
Somerset International Group,
Inc. , a corporation
organized under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “
Company ”), hereby certifies that, for value received
from Dutchess Private Equities Fund, Ltd., a Cayman Island exempted
company (the “ Holder ”), is entitled, subject
to the terms set forth below, to purchase from the Company up to a
total of nine hundred thousand (900,000) shares of the
common stock, $0.001 par value per share (the “ Common
Stock ”), of the Company (the “ Warrant
Shares ”), at an exercise price equal to 1/1000 US
dollars ($.001) per share (the “ Exercise Price
”). This Warrant may be exercised on a cashless
basis anytime after issuance through and including the fifth (5th)
anniversary of its original issuance as noted above (the “
Expiration Date ”), subject to the following terms and
conditions:
1.
Registration of Warrant . The Company shall, from
time to time and whenever requested by the Holder, register this
Warrant in conformity with records to be maintained by the Company
for such purpose (the “ Warrant Register ”) in
the name of the Holder. The Company shall treat the
registered Holder of this Warrant as the absolute owner hereof for
any and all purposes, including the exercise hereof or any
distribution to the Holder, and the Company shall not be affected
by notice to the contrary.
2.
Registration of Transfers and Exchanges .
(a) The
Company or the transfer agent shall enter or record the transfer of
all or any portion of this Warrant in the Warrant Register, upon
surrender of this Warrant to the Company at the office specified
herein or pursuant to Section 11 hereof. Upon any
such registration or transfer, a new warrant to purchase Common
Stock, in substantially the form of this Warrant (any such new
warrant hereinafter referred to as a “ New Warrant
”), evidencing the portion of this Warrant so transferred
shall be issued to the transferee and a New Warrant evidencing the
remaining portion of this Warrant not so transferred, if any, shall
be issued to the Holder. The acceptance of the New
Warrant by the transferee thereof shall be deemed the acceptance of
such transferee of all of the rights and obligations of a holder of
a Warrant.
(b) This
Warrant is exchangeable, upon the surrender hereof by the Holder to
the office of the Company specified herein or pursuant to
Section 3(b) hereof for one or more New Warrants, evidencing
in the aggregate the right to purchase the number of Warrant Shares
which may then be purchased hereunder. Any such New
Warrant shall be dated as of the date of such
exchange.
3.
Duration and Exercise of Warrants .
(a) This
Warrant shall be exercisable by the registered Holder on any
business day before 5:00 P.M., Boston time, at any time and from
time to time on or after the date hereof to and including the
Expiration Date. At 5:00 P.M., Boston time on the
Expiration Date, the portion of this Warrant not exercised prior
thereto shall be and become void and of no value. Prior
to the Expiration Date, the Company may not call or otherwise
redeem this Warrant without the prior written consent of the
Holder, which consent shall be given or withheld at the sole and
absolute discretion of the Holder.
(b) Subject
to Section 2(b) , Section 6 and Section 10
hereof, upon: (x) surrender of this Warrant, together with the Form
of Election to Purchase attached hereto duly completed and signed,
to the Company at its address for notice set forth in Section
11 hereof; and (y) payment of the Exercise Price multiplied by
the number of Warrant Shares that the Holder intends to purchase
hereunder, in the manner provided hereunder, all as specified by
the Holder in the Form of Election to Purchase, the Company shall
promptly (but in no event later than five (5) business days after
the Date of Exercise (as defined below)) issue or cause to be
issued and cause to be delivered to the Holder in such name(s) as
the Holder may designate, a certificate for the Warrant Shares
issuable upon such exercise and free of restrictive legends unless
(i) a registration statement covering the resale of the Warrant
Shares and naming the Holder as a selling stockholder thereunder is
not then effective or the Warrant Shares are not freely
transferable without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k)
promulgated under the Securities Act then the Warrant Shares will
bear a Securities Act restrictive legend, or (ii) this Warrant
shall have been issued pursuant to a written agreement between the
original Holder and the Company, as required by such
agreement. Any person so designated by the Holder to
receive Warrant Shares shall be deemed to have become holder of
record of such Warrant Shares as of the Date of Exercise of this
Warrant. A “ Date of Exercise ” means
the date on which the Company shall have received (I) this Warrant
(or any New Warrant, as applicable), together with the Form of
Election to Purchase attached hereto (or attached to such New
Warrant) appropriately completed and duly signed; and (II) payment
of the Exercise Price for the number of Warrant Shares so indicated
by the holder hereof to be purchased.
(c) This
Warrant shall be exercisable in its entirety or, from time to time,
for a portion of the number of Warrant Shares. If less
than all of the Warrant Shares which may be purchased under this
Warrant are exercised at any time, the Company shall issue or cause
to be issued, at its expense, a New Warrant evidencing the right to
purchase the remaining number of Warrant Shares for which no
exercise has been evidenced by this Warrant. In the
event the Common Stock representing the Warrant Shares is not
delivered per the written instructions of the Holder within five
(5) business days after the Notice of Election and Warrant is
received by the Company (the “ Delivery Date ”),
then the Company shall pay to Holder in cash two percent (2.0%) of
the dollar value of the Warrant Shares to be issued per each day
after the Delivery Date that the Warrant Shares are not
delivered. The Company acknowledges that its failure to
deliver the Warrant Shares by the Delivery Date will cause the
Holder to suffer damages in an amount that will be difficult to
ascertain. Accordingly, the parties hereto agree that it
is appropriate to include in this Warrant this provision for
liquidated damages. The parties hereto acknowledge and
agree that the liquidated damages provision set forth in this
section represents the parties’ good faith effort to quantify
such damages and therefore agree that the form and amount of such
liquidated damages are reasonable and will not constitute a
penalty. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the payment of
liquidated damages shall not relieve the Company from its
obligations to deliver the Common Stock pursuant to the terms of
this Warrant. The Company shall make any payments
incurred under this Section 3 in immediately available funds
within five (5) business days from the date of issuance of the
applicable Warrant Shares. Nothing herein shall limit
Holder’s right to pursue actual damages or cancel the Notice
of Election for the Company’s failure to issue and deliver
Common Stock to the Holder within seven (7) business days following
the Delivery Date.
4.
Registration Rights . During the term of this
Warrant, the Company agrees to use its best efforts to file a
registration statement with the SEC covering the resale of the
Warrant Shares and naming the Holder as a selling stockholder
thereunder on or before April 16, 2007 (unless the Warrant Shares
are otherwise freely transferable without volume restrictions
pursuant to Rule 144(k) or Rule 144A promulgated under the
Securities Act). The registration rights granted to the Holder
pursuant to this Section shall continue until all of the Holder's
Warrant Shares have been sold in accordance with an effective
registration statement or upon the Expiration Date, or as otherwise
provided in the Debenture Registration Rights Agreement entered
into between the Company and the original Holder as of the original
issuance date hereof. The Company will pay all
registration expenses in connection therewith.
5.
Payment of Taxes . Upon the exercise of this
Warrant, the Company will pay all documentary stamp taxes
attributable to the issuance of Warrant Shares; provided, however,
that the Company shall not be required to pay any tax that may be
payable in respect of any transfer involved in the registration of
any certificates for Warrant Shares or Warrants in a name other
than that of the Holder. The Holder shall be responsible
for all other tax liability that may arise as a result of holding
or transferring this Warrant or receiving Warrant Shares upon
exercise hereof.
6.
Replacement of Warrant . If this Warrant is
mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue or
cause to be issued in exchange and substitution for and upon
cancellation hereof, or in lieu of and substitution for this
Warrant, a New Warrant, but only upon receipt of evidence
reasonably satisfactory to the Company of such loss, theft or
destruction and indemnity, if requested, satisfactory to
it. Applicants for a New Warrant under such
circumstances shall comply with such other reasonable regulations
and procedures and pay such other reasonable charges as the Company
may prescribe.
7.
Reservation of Warrant Shares . The Company
covenants that it will at all times reserve and keep available out
of the aggregate of its authorized but unissued Common Stock,
solely for the purpose of enabling it to issue Warrant Shares upon
exercise of this Warrant as herein provided, the number of Warrant
Shares which are then issuable and deliverable upon the exercise of
this entire Warrant, free from preemptive rights or any other
actual contingent purchase rights of persons other than the Holder
(taking into account the adjustments and restrictions of Section
8 hereof). The Company covenants that all Warrant
Shares that shall be so issuable and deliverable shall, upon
issuance and the payment of the applicable Exercise Price in
accordance with the terms hereof, be duly and validly authorized,
issued and fully paid and nonassessable. If the Company
does not have a sufficient amount of Common Stock authorized to
reserve for the Warrant Shares, it shall, as soon as reasonably
practicable, use its best efforts to increase the number of its
authorized shares such that the Company will have a sufficient
amount of Common Stock authorized to reserve for the Warrant
Shares.
8.
Certain Adjustments . The Exercise Price and
number of Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of this Warrant are
subject to adjustment from time to time as set forth in this
Section 8 . Upon each such adjustment of the
Exercise Price pursuant to this Section 8 , the Holder shall
thereafter but prior to the Expiration Date be entitled to
purchase, at the Exercise Price resulting from such adjustment, the
number of Warrant Shares obtained by multiplying the Exercise Price
in effect immediately prior to such adjustment by the number of
Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of this Warrant immediately
prior to such adjustment and dividing the product thereof by the
Exercise Price resulting from such adjustment.
(a) An
adjustment shall be made, if the Company, at any time while this
Warrant is outstanding (i) pays a stock dividend (except scheduled
dividends paid on outstanding preferred stock as of the date hereof
which contain a stated dividend rate) or otherwise make
distribution(s) on shares of its Common Stock or on any other class
of capital stock and not the Common Stock payable in shares of
Common Stock; (ii) subdivides outstanding shares of Common Stock
into a larger number of shares; or (iii) combines outstanding
shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of
shares. If either (i), (ii) or (iii) above occurs, the
Exercise Price shall be multiplied by a fraction of which the
numerator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock (excluding
treasury shares, if any) outstanding before such event and of which
the denominator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock
(excluding treasury shares, if any) outstanding after such
event.
Any adjustment made pursuant to this Section
shall become effective immediately after the record date for the
determination of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or
distribution and shall become effective immediately after the
effective date in the case of a subdivision or combination, and
shall apply to successive subdivisions and combinations.
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