Technology Law Alliance is celebrating its fifth successful year in business, having advised on several billion pounds-worth of transactions.

It claims to be one of the leading law firms in the field of IT, outsourcing and e-commerce.

And it cites independent legal press surveys ranking it as being on a par with the world's largest law firm, Clifford Chance. Its peers also include City majors as Slaughter and May, Lovells and Norton Rose.

It was launched by senior technology lawyers, Jagvinder Kang and Stephen Olleren-shaw, following their departure from Wragge & Co.

In 2003 heavyweight outsourcing lawyer, Gavin Wakefield, former UK head of legal at global technology giant, Capgemini, joined up followed by the appointment in 2005 of Jeremy Newton, a partner in the IT law team at City law firm Nabarro.

The aim was to become one of the country's leading specialist technology law firms.

Mr Kang said: "We have always demonstrated our expertise by the calibre of our lawyers, the quality of our clients, and the types of transactions that we have advised on."

The firm recently advised Capgemini UK when it was named preferred bidder for a five year contract to supply IT services to the Learning and Skills Council, in a major outsourcing deal.

2007 also saw the firm being awarded a catalist framework agreement for legal services with OGCbuying.solutions. The framework agreement allows customers throughout the public sector to place orders with Technology Law Alliance under standard terms and conditions, in respect of the provision of legal advice relating to IT, telecommunications and ecommerce work. This appointment comes as part of a wider refresh of the panels of law firms supplying legal services to government departments and other public sector bodies in England and Wales.

Recent recruits have been associates Gareth Stokes and Jessica Brown.

Mr Ollerenshaw said: "You need the best lawyers in order to become the best law firm. We are already looking to recruit more associates to cater for the exponential interest our law firm is generating.

"Technology Law Alliance consists of highly experienced professionals who can get into a negotiation, deal with the issues quickly and effectively. This means that our clients can spend more time on developing their business rather than participating in prolonged contractual negotiations. We use expert lawyers to achieve our clients' objectives, and we aim to do so in a way that is both more pro-active and more cost-effective than our competitors."

TLA operates from offices in Birmingham and in London.

Its client list includes Capgemini, Hitachi Data Systems and Trafficmaster, as well as buyers of IT systems and services like F&C Asset Management, NSPCC and Crest Nicholson.

Mr Ollerenshaw went on: "We are very pleased with the clients we have attracted over the last five years, and with the quality and volume of work that they ask us to handle. We are looking forward to 2008 to build on the success of what we have achieved, and we will continue to get across our message that our specialist law firm can offer better value advice than our competitors in our key service lines: IT contracts, outsourcing and e-commerce."

Mr Kang said: "Our expertise is comparable with the best law firms in the country, but our fee rates are not! Our clients know that they get the best of both worlds: a quality proposition without the associated cost of the City law firms.

"We only use experienced, senior lawyers who are capable of handling a matter from start to finish, and so avoid the duplication of charges associated with mobilising an army of lawyers and trainees for every large matter as the traditional law firms tend to do. "