"forced liquidation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used in legal or financial contexts to refer to the process of selling off assets or property to pay off debts or settle financial obligations. Example: "The company's financial troubles led to a forced liquidation of their assets, leaving many investors without a return on their investments."
In America, during the savings-and-loan meltdown of the 1980s, the Resolution Trust Corporation recovered as much as possible by forced liquidation.
For the firm to recommend that its customers sell would have forced liquidation of funds that owned mostly illiquid assets, making things that much worse.
Distressed or forced liquidation sales are not orderly transactions, and thus the fact that a transaction is distressed or forced should be considered when weighing the available evidence.
Nick Reilly, the president of G.M.'s European operations, said that the move was not a bankruptcy or forced liquidation, so he expected Saab to pay its debts, including those of suppliers.
Companies get less value from equipment than real estate because, unlike real estate, equipment depreciates over time, and lenders tend to value it at what is known as forced liquidation value, a lowball price based on what it would fetch at auction.
Stocks staged an unimpressive rebound yesterday from their recent pummeling, giving up much of hefty early gains in a session marked by more warnings of profit disappointments, continued forced liquidation of shares bought on credit and year-end maneuvers to cut tax bills.
First, forced liquidations push down the price of assets, hitting confidence further.
"You don't want forced liquidations" of securities during a down market, he said.
With forced liquidations of bond holdings still under way by major institutions in the wake of the Lehman Brothers failure in September, even the slightest whiff of risk in a bond has put off investors, resulting in big losses.
Despite an overhaul of the bankruptcy laws in 1998, it is still awesomely difficult to foreclose on debts: the definition of bankruptcy turns on net worth, as opposed to cash flow, and the process is slowed down by a two-track system that separates forced restructurings from forced liquidations.
"We are seeing more fixed-income-type forced liquidations.
