KeyBank announced this week that it had reestablished a commercial banking office in Boston, aiming to grow middle-market lending in the region.

The Cleveland-based bank named its new market team as well: Boston market leader Jed Hall; Ethan Powell, senior vice president, commercial banking and Matthew Quinn, vice president, commercial banking.

“We view Greater Boston as a significant market for growth opportunities for Key’s commercial banking practice, particularly the opportunity to work with larger middle market businesses,” Sterling Kozlowski, KeyBank’s New England regional executive, said in a statement. “Over the past year, we have strengthened our Boston commercial banking team and integrated them into the overall KeyBank family. We want to help our middle market clients achieve their goals by providing direct access to KeyBank’s full suite of financial services, products and solutions. We are excited about what the future holds for us in the region.”

Hall joined KeyBank late in 2015. He previously spent 22 years at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (BBH) where he worked on corporate banking, health care banking and not-for-profit groups.

Powell joined KeyBank late last year. He spent 11 years at BBH in New York, starting in its corporate banking group and moving on to its commodity finance group. More recently, he worked in the structured trade and commodity finance group at DZ Bank, based in Germany.  

Quinn also joined KeyBank late last year. Previously, he worked with BBH in Boston in its corporate advisory and banking group with a primary focus on middle-market clients in the healthcare and food and beverage industries, as well as privately held manufacturers.