Klick Health Acquires Peregrine Market Access

Acquisition further cements Klick's position as the leading go-to commercialization partner in life sciences; highlights companies’ shared commitment to clients, workplace culture, and attracting the industry’s best people

Klick Health today announced it has acquired Peregrine Market Access, a leading market access strategy and value communications specialist in life sciences.

The acquisition strengthens Klick Health’s position and ongoing investment in the increasingly important value, access, and reimbursement segments within life sciences commercialization. Peregrine builds on Klick’s proven market access execution capabilities with its industry-leading access strategy, value communications, and payer insights offerings.

“We are thrilled to welcome the entire Peregrine Market Access team to Klick. We commend John Guarino for founding and building such a well-respected and formidable presence in our industry,” said Klick Health Co-Founder and Chairman Leerom Segal. “Peregrine is a remarkable business with a sterling reputation and deep, trusted client relationships, making them the perfect accelerant to our growing market access business. Both Peregrine and Klick are passionate about helping clients get innovative therapies to the patients who need them; we believe this will be a greater challenge for patients in the future, which makes an investment in this area so valuable. Peregrine and Klick both grew up fiercely independent, known for fostering high-performance, entrepreneurial, people-centric cultures. We are excited to bring our organizations together and unleash exponential potential.”

“It has been great getting to know Leerom, the Klick leadership team, and Klick’s depth of expertise in medical, analytics, and AI. Together, we will immediately be able to bring new innovations to clients and redefine what’s possible in market access strategy, analytics, and communications,” said John Guarino, Founder and CEO of Peregrine Market Access. He added, “I’m thrilled to bring our teams together. Our values align incredibly well, and the opportunities from being one team are endless.”

Klick’s Chief Medical Officer Holly Henry added, “Together, we are uniting the best medical and market access teams in North America, and bringing the number of PhD/advanced degree professionals within our medical and access functions alone to around 250 in the Klick Mediverse. We are committed to providing pharmaceutical and biotech clients with an unparalleled level of scientific, medical, and analytics expertise.”

Today’s news follows Klick’s ongoing investments in building out its market access capabilities. Last year, the agency welcomed veteran market access professional Ellen Cappellino and other segment specialists to further bolster its Value, Access, and Reimbursement practice.

About Klick Health

Klick Health is the world’s largest independent commercialization partner for life sciences, focused on hacking the boundaries of health by developing, launching, and supporting life sciences brands to achieve their full potential. The agency provides best-in-class marketing and advertising, media strategy and purchasing, medical affairs and medical communications, value and market access services, as well as enterprise omnichannel enablement among its specialized offerings. Klick’s client service is rooted in deep medical and scientific understanding, enabled by nearly 250 post-graduate, in-house medical experts; unrivaled decision sciences capabilities; and innovative, results-driven creative.

One of the most-awarded advertising agencies on the planet, Klick was named 2024 Clio Health Independent Agency of the Year, London International Awards Global (and Regional) Independent Health & Pharma Agency of the Year, as well as Cannes Lions #2 Healthcare Agency and #2 Healthcare Network for the second year running. Cannes Lions also recognized Klick as the 2024 #3 Independent Agency of the Year. In 2024, Klick won over 140 top creative honors, including the coveted Cannes Lions Innovation Grand Prix, and eight agency distinctions from the most respected advertising awards shows. Klick has also been ranked a Best Managed Company, Great Place to Work, Best Workplace for Women, Best Workplace for Inclusion, Best Workplace for Professional Services, Most Admired Corporate Culture, and a FORTUNE Best Workplace in Advertising.

Established in 1997, Klick Health (including Klick Katalyst and btwelve) has offices in New York, Philadelphia, Toronto, London, São Paulo, and Singapore. It is part of the Klick Group of companies, which also includes Klick Media Group, Klick Applied Sciences (including Klick Labs), Klick Consulting, Klick Ventures, and Sensei Labs. Follow Klick Health on LinkedIn and for more information on joining Klick, go to careers.klick.com.

About Peregrine Market Access

Peregrine Market Access is a leading consulting, communications, and commercialization partner for the life sciences industry. We help our clients demonstrate the value of their FDA-approved treatments and therapies to the organizations that pay for them (health insurance providers and the government) so that sick people get the medicines they need. Peregrine Market Access has been nationally recognized on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in the United States (2022, 2021). The company was founded in 2016 by market access expert John Guarino, who served as a US Army paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division. The second brigade of that division, nicknamed the “Falcon brigade,” inspired the naming of Peregrine Market Access. Beyond the name, John has leveraged the Army ethos of being in service to others to passionately help patients receive the medicine and treatments they need and give back to causes we believe in.

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