After nearly 16 years at King & Spalding in New York and Dubai, corporate partner Benjamin Newland recently left the firm to start two of his own companies called Clear Corporate Services LLC (CCS) and Newland Ventures.

Newland, a founder and president of both entities, is now also in the process of moving his family to Spain, only days after twin terrorist attacks rocked the country.

“[There] is kind of this eerie echo showing up here just right after these attacks,” Newland said of his arrival in Barcelona this past weekend.