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Business Combinations - Purchase Price Composition (Details) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, shares in Millions, $ in Millions | Dec. 01, 2021 | Sep. 30, 2022 | Dec. 31, 2021 | Nov. 30, 2021 | Sep. 30, 2021 | Dec. 31, 2020
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Business Acquisition [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |  |
Total purchase price, net of cash acquired | $ 4,994.3 |  |  |  |  |
Share price (in dollars per share) |  |  |  | $ 23.34 |  |
Restricted cash |  | $ 8.6 | $ 156.7 |  | $ 1,857.6 | $ 14.7
ProQuest |  |  |  |  |  |
Business Acquisition [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |  |
Newly issued ordinary shares (in shares) | 46.9 |  |  |  |  |
Issuance of shares | $ 1,094.9 |  |  |  |  |
Cash consideration | 3,959.9 |  |  |  |  |
Total purchase price | 5,054.8 |  |  |  |  |
Cash acquired | 52.5 |  |  |  |  |
Total purchase price, net of cash acquired | 5,002.3 |  |  |  |  |
Base cash consideration | 3,988.0 |  |  |  |  |
Working capital adjustments | 31.7 |  |  |  |  |
Closing indebtedness adjustments | 36.6 |  |  |  |  |
Closing cash consideration | 40.2 |  |  |  |  |
Restricted cash | $ 2.0 |  |  |  |  |

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