The phrase "advised to settle" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is recommended or suggested to reach an agreement or resolution, often in legal or financial matters.
Example: "After reviewing the case, the lawyer advised her to settle rather than go to trial."
Alternatives: "recommended to resolve" or "suggested to agree".
They would have been advised to seek to settle the matter by making an offer of amends - a public apology in an agreed statement in open court and the payment of damages to a charity of the prime minister's choosing, together with his legal costs.
They refused to listen when advised to sell Spring Street to settle the debts of Judd's messy estate and to support the larger concentration of Judd's many activities in Marfa, Tex.
Yet computer experts had advised Microsoft to settle.
Yet she couldn't recall anything that advised men to settle.
Four months later, in an unprecedented move, the judge advised Hesketh to settle the restitution claim and he agreed to pay $130,000.
Members of the committee, though, were openly incredulous at Mr. Murdoch's contention that when lawyers advised him to settle the Taylor case for hundreds of thousands of pounds, he had failed to ask basic questions about their reasoning.
When Mrs Jones sued President Clinton for sexual harassment, Mrs Clinton advised him to settle out of court, despite the humiliation that would follow from her husband's implied admission of infidelity.
But, after two years of litigation, Mr. Dowd and a big Chicago law firm to which he referred Ms. Corcoran advised her to settle the case for the $1.4 million she had originally been offered.
As running back Brandon Jacobs began a slow simmer through the course of an autumn in which he barely saw the field, Moss advised him to settle down and take personal stock of the situation without making it public; Moss had made similar mistakes earlier in his career, he told him, and had learned from them.
