Matthew Poppe, a longtime commercial and intellectual property litigator at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, has left the Am Law 100 firm for the San Francisco and Palo Alto, California, outposts of Rimon, a growing boutique based in the Bay Area.

Poppe, whose clients include Chinese social media company Baidu Inc., e-commerce giant eBay Inc. and Palo Alto-based oncology equipment maker Varian Medical Systems Inc., had practiced at Orrick since 1995.